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Cloudera Offers Free, New Hadoop Distribution and Enterprise Offering

Cloudera, provider of Hadoop-based data management software and services, today announced the third version of Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop (CDH). In Cloudera's new distribution, the core Apache Hadoop framework is still there, but there are eight additional open source software offerings. There are also many ease-of-use improvements. 

"Cloudera has gained deep experience in the market working with customers to deploy Hadoop in their organizations and has learned how to use Hadoop effectively,”" said Doug Cutting, creator of Apache Hadoop and Architect at Cloudera, in a statement. "CDH v3 is our response. It includes the most appropriate enterprise-grade add-on projects that enhance the core Apache Hadoop framework and make it easier for any organization to use.”

Cloudera has also created two new open source projects offered with the new distribution. The company is releasing Flume, its data loading infrastructure, and its Hadoop User Environment (HUE) code under the Apache V2 open source license. These aim to simplify data acquisition and offer customization options for Hadoop interfaces. In total, the eight open source offerings in the new distribution are: Hive, HBase, Sqoop, Oozie, Flume, Zookeeper, Pig, and Hue.

Also today, Cloudera rolled out Cloudera Enterprise. It consists of data management software offerings and is Cloudera's first Hadoop-based offering aimed squarely at enterprises. Cloudera's new Hadoop distrribution is free, here. The new enterprise offering is sold by subscription, for varying fees.

In other Hadoop news, Yahoo has updated its Hadoop distribution. GigaOM has more details here. 

• Hadoop
• Cloudera

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