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The following is a repost of my answer to a question on LinkedIn, but I thought it may prove useful to people evaluating Hadoop distributions. The following is a substantially over simplified set of choices (in alphabetical order): Amazon: Apache Hadoop provided as a web service. Good solution if your data is collected on Amazon…saves …

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Once you start to use Hadoop in your day-to-day business operations, you’ll quickly find that uptime is an important consideration. No one wants to explain to the CEO why a report is not delivered. While most of Hadoop’s architecture is designed to work in the face of node failure (such as the DataNodes), other components …

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