Plugs for vendors on the ML (WAS: Monitoring)

[Jean-Daniel Cryans <jd...@apache.org>]

I think we should also avoid hijacking threads for that sort of
discussion (sorry Joseph!).

J-D

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote:
> I made a patch for the manual updating our Cloudera text some and
> adding in MapR reference.  I did it here:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4140  My wordsmithing is
> not the best so input appreciated.  Will just commit tomorrow and push
> it out if nought said.
>
> St.Ack
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Buttler, David <bu...@llnl.gov> wrote:
>>> However, only two vendors deliver a platform that supports hbase (with append): Cloudera and MapR.  HortonWorks and ASF do not (to my knowledge). I am not sure I can count hard to find/compile branches that exist in ASF's version control as "supporting" hbase.
>>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> The manual says this on hadoop version currently:
>>
>> "This version of HBase will only run on Hadoop 0.20.x. It will not run
>> on hadoop 0.21.x (nor 0.22.x). HBase will lose data unless it is
>> running on an HDFS that has a durable sync. Hadoop 0.20.2 and Hadoop
>> 0.20.203.0 DO NOT have this attribute. Currently only the
>> branch-0.20-append branch has this....
>>
>> Or rather than build your own, you could use Cloudera's CDH3. CDH has
>> the 0.20-append patches needed to add a durable sync (CDH3 betas will
>> suffice; b2, b3, or b4)."
>>
>> Unless objection, I think I should add MapR to the tail of the last
>> paragraph (with the 'free as in free beer' caveat).
>>
>> St.Ack
>>
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