Hadoop is an open-source project under the Apache Software Foundation, and most components in the Hadoop ecosystem are also open-sourced. Many companies have taken important components and bundled them together to form a complete distribution package that is easier to use and manage. A Hadoop distribution offers the following benefits:
- Installation: The distribution package provides an easy way to install any component or rpm-like package on clusters. It provides an easy interface too.
- Packaging: It comes with multiple open-source tools that are well configured to work together. Assume that you want to install and configure each component separately on a multi-node cluster and then test whether it's working properly or not. What if we forget some testing scenarios and the cluster behaves unexpectedly? The Hadoop distribution assures us that...
