MapR Sandbox Fastest On-Ramp to Hadoop
From the webpage:
The MapR Sandbox for Hadoop provides tutorials, demo applications, and browser-based user interfaces to let developers and administrators get started quickly with Hadoop. It is a fully functional Hadoop cluster running in a virtual machine. You can try our Sandbox now – it is completely free and available as a VMware or VirtualBox VM.
If you are a business intelligence analyst or a developer interested in self-service data exploration on Hadoop using SQL and BI Tools, the MapR Sandbox including Apache Drill will get you started quickly. You can download the Drill Sandbox here.
You of course know about the Hortonworks and Cloudera (at the very bottom of the page) sandboxes as well.
Don’t expect a detailed comparison of all three because the features and distributions change too quickly for that to be useful. And my interest is more in capturing the style or approach that may make a difference to a starting user.
Enjoy!
I first saw this in a tweet by Kirk Borne.