Hadoop
Distribution
Comparison
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The following slides would compare
Hadoop distribution for 5 prominent
big data companies in the market
today, based on various aspects:
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Cloudera
HortonWorks
MapR
Amazon EMR
Intel Hadoop
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Setup Flexibility:
Cloudera
Horton Works
MapR
Easy Setup using Cloudera Manager
HDP Installer (Ambari). Requires a few different databases.
Easy Setup Installer
Amazon EMR
Easy, Management Console
Intel Hadoop
Yes, Intel Manager
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Security Infrastructure:
Cloudera
Horton Works
MapR
Role Based authorization
No info about data at rest security. Hadoop itself supports
encryption.
SSL based authentication between client and server machines. No
role based access control or data classification or compliance
management
No mention about the data classification or compliance
management
Restrictions can be applied at volume level to prevent unauthorized
access to files
Amazon EMR
Has Amazon virtual private cloud
IAM tools by users, roles.
Intel Hadoop
Encryption, decryption uusing Inten AES-NI
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Learning support:
Cloudera
Well Documented and provides training and certifications
Horton Works
Well Documented and provides training and certifications
MapR
Well documented
Amazon EMR
Well documented with tutorials
Intel Hadoop
Training provided by Intel
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Operation Tools:
Cloudera
Horton Works
MapR
Web Based GUI,
Cloudera Navigator (Enterprise Subscription),
Cloudera manager (Enterprise subscription)
Ganglia, Nagios
Yes
Amazon EMR
Ganglia and other Amazon cloud monitoring facilities
Intel Hadoop
Intel Manager
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Operation Support:
Cloudera
Horton Works
MapR
Professional support provided for production environment Cloudera
Enterprise Support. POC, dev support is available too
Professional support provided. 3 levels, Developer, standard,
enterprise
24/7 support and also professional services for POC,
implementation
Amazon EMR
24/7
Intel Hadoop
24/7
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Market Share:
Cloudera
Horton Works
MapR
Used by many leading organisation
Used by a few leading companies. Not as many as Cloudera
Used by many companies in commercial, finance and government
sectors.
Tested partner with Amazon AWS and Google compute engine
Amazon EMR
Widely used
Intel Hadoop
Not much info about Customers using. # customers mentioned in
the website
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Developer/People availability:
Cloudera
Horton Works
Good
Fair
MapR
No Info
Amazon EMR
No Info
Intel Hadoop
No Info
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Editions available:
Cloudera
Horton Works
MapR
Standard, Enterprise
Windows, HDP2, Sandbox
Comes with 3 support level
M3, M5, M7
Amazon EMR
EC2, may options of data store is available
Intel Hadoop
One
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Integration with BI tools:
Cloudera
Horton Works
MapR
Cloudera developed connectors for BI tools
Microstrategy, Netezza, Oracle, Qlikview,
Tableau, Teradata
Basic ODBC drivers for BI integration
Well integrated with BI tools using JDBC, ODBC, NFS based
interfaces, Hadoop interfaces
Amazon EMR
Can be used with BI tools
Intel Hadoop
No Info
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Performance:
Cloudera
No particular performance advantage
Horton Works
No particular performance advantage
MapR
Faster than any other Hadoop distribution because of their Native
NFS based file system. Leads to lesser cost
HA for job tracker
Amazon EMR
HA for Job tracker, faster
Intel Hadoop
Faster than normal Hadoop setup as hardware and, storage all
tuned for Hadoop
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Supported OS:
Cloudera
Horton Works
MapR
RHEL, CentOS, SLES, Debian, Ubuntu, Oracle Enterprise Linux
RHEL, CentOS, SLES, Ubuntu, Windows (Only distribution available
for windows)
No Info published
Amazon EMR
Amazon OS
Intel Hadoop
No Info published
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Professional Services:
Cloudera
Cluster Certification, ETL pilot, analytics pilot, production readiness
Horton Works
Yes
MapR
Yes
Amazon EMR
Yes
Intel Hadoop
Yes
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