Experience with Hadoop?

Question

Have any of you tried Hadoop? Can it be used without the distributed filesystem that goes with it, in a Share-nothing architecture? Would that make sense?

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Answer 1

If you're just getting your feet wet, start out by downloading CDH4 & running it. You can easily install into a local Virtual Machine and run in "pseudo-distributed mode" which closely mimics how it would run in a real cluster.