Description: Want to have fun with puzzles? Enjoy!!! :)
1. There are different Hadoop distributions . After Cloudera and Hortonworks merged , they are coming up with a common commercial distribution . Go to the Cloudera website and there are plenty of resources.
2.There are multiple components in a Hadoop cluster – Hive , Impala , Spark , Hue , Yarn , Cloudera Manager , navigator , HTTPFS , WEBHDFS, Hdfs , Hbase, Kudu , Kafka and zookeeper . Read about them .
3. Cloudera offers free images on their website . You need the virtual box software and atleast 16GB RAM on your PC. Download the image and upload into the virtual box. Rest is straight forward. The Cloudera website has detailed guidelines .