Hadoop distributions

One of the first technologies in the open source world to deal with big data for use cases apart from the mining and searching was Hadoop. Hadoop put big data into the hands of enterprises to deal with the so called data existing within the organization.

Being open source, there is a huge community base and backing from big enterprises. The same is the case with Apache Hadoop and earlier, Hadoop distribution was released by Cloudera in 2008. Every distributor adds on many features and also enriches or enhances existing features, making it more attractive for people to adopt and use.

Cloudera is still the most widely used distribution of Hadoop. MapR soon followed by releasing its Hadoop distribution in 2009 and in 2011, Hortonworks released its own distribution. These three players control by far the largest part of the market share at this time.

These distributions not only enhance the existing features; they also try to and integrate many open source products to produce...