1. Hadoop Distribution Comparison ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data

2. The following slides would compare Hadoop distribution for 5 prominent big data companies in the market today, based on various aspects: Cloudera HortonWorks MapR Amazon EMR Intel Hadoop ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data

3. Setup Flexibility: ClouderaEasy Setup using Cloudera Manager Horton WorksHDP Installer (Ambari). Requires a few different databases. MapREasy Setup Installer Amazon EMREasy, Management Console Intel HadoopYes, Intel Manager ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data

4. Security Infrastructure: Cloudera Role Based authorization No info about data at rest security. Hadoop itself supports encryption. Horton Works SSL based authentication between client and server machines. No role based access control or data classification or compliance management MapR No mention about the data classification or compliance management Restrictions can be applied at volume level to prevent unauthorized access to files Amazon EMRHas Amazon virtual private cloud IAM tools by users, roles. Intel HadoopEncryption, decryption uusing Inten AES-NI

5. ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data Learning support: ClouderaWell Documented and provides training and certifications Horton WorksWell Documented and provides training and certifications MapRWell documented Amazon EMRWell documented with tutorials Intel HadoopTraining provided by Intel

6. ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data Operation Tools: Cloudera Web Based GUI, Cloudera Navigator (Enterprise Subscription), Cloudera manager (Enterprise subscription) Horton WorksGanglia, Nagios MapRYes Amazon EMRGanglia and other Amazon cloud monitoring facilities Intel HadoopIntel Manager

7. ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data Operation Support: Cloudera Professional support provided for production environment Cloudera Enterprise Support. POC, dev support is available too Horton WorksProfessional support provided. 3 levels, Developer, standard, enterprise MapR24/7 support and also professional services for POC, implementation Amazon EMR24/7 Intel Hadoop24/7

8. ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data Market Share: ClouderaUsed by many leading organisation Horton WorksUsed by a few leading companies. Not as many as Cloudera MapR Used by many companies in commercial, finance and government sectors. Tested partner with Amazon AWS and Google compute engine Amazon EMRWidely used Intel HadoopNot much info about Customers using. # customers mentioned in the website

9. ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data Developer/People availability: ClouderaGood Horton WorksFair MapRNo Info Amazon EMRNo Info Intel HadoopNo Info

10. ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data Editions available: ClouderaStandard, Enterprise Horton WorksWindows, HDP2, Sandbox Comes with 3 support level MapRM3, M5, M7 Amazon EMREC2, may options of data store is available Intel HadoopOne

11. ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data Integration with BI tools: Cloudera Cloudera developed connectors for BI tools Microstrategy, Netezza, Oracle, Qlikview, Tableau, Teradata Horton WorksBasic ODBC drivers for BI integration MapR Well integrated with BI tools using JDBC, ODBC, NFS based interfaces, Hadoop interfaces Amazon EMRCan be used with BI tools Intel HadoopNo Info

12. ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data Performance: ClouderaNo particular performance advantage Horton WorksNo 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 EMRHA for Job tracker, faster Intel HadoopFaster than normal Hadoop setup as hardware and, storage all tuned for Hadoop

13. ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data Supported OS: ClouderaRHEL, CentOS, SLES, Debian, Ubuntu, Oracle Enterprise Linux Horton WorksRHEL, CentOS, SLES, Ubuntu, Windows (Only distribution available for windows) MapRNo Info published Amazon EMRAmazon OS Intel HadoopNo Info published

14. ©2013 OpalSoft Big Data Professional Services: ClouderaCluster Certification, ETL pilot, analytics pilot, production readiness Horton WorksYes MapRYes Amazon EMRYes Intel HadoopYes