For any enterprise to adopt a particular Hadoop Distribution that is commercially supported, there are a few key factors that the enterprise would generally need to evaluate against these distributions in context of its maturity and culture of adoption. Here, we will briefly touch upon some of these key factors.
Each of the distributions has its own unique capabilities as well as many other capabilities which are similar to each other. At the minutest details, we can always have a big list of capabilities, but we can focus on some of the prominent ones for the purpose of comparison and evaluation.
Many Hadoop distributions, while using common core components, do differentiate themselves from others in terms of ease of deployment and maintenance. This may vary from automation and monitoring interfaces to alerts and upgrades, and so on.
