Installing Hadoop from source: build, patch and run
Commercial Apache Hadoop distributions have come and gone. The two leaders, Cloudera and Hortonworks, have merged: HDP is no more and CDH is now CDP. MapR has been acquired by HP and IBM BigInsights has been discontinued.
Note: Since the publication of this article, Microsoft announced that they developed a fork of HDP 3.1.6.2 called “HDInsight-4.1.0.26”. This version is now…