Free Hadoop Development Environment: Karmasphere Studio
Last week we told you about this tutorial to get started with Hadoop. If you want to go further with Hadoop, you might want a dedicated development environment. Karmasphere offers both a free "community edition" and a paid professional version of its Hadoop development environment for prototyping, development and debugging of Hadoop jobs. Has anyone used it? What did you think?
Some basic technical information from Karmasphere's web site:
- Runs on Linux, Apple Mac OS and Windows
- Works with all major distributions and versions of Hadoop including Apache, Yahoo!, IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and Cloudera
- Works with Amazon Elastic MapReduce
- Supports Eclipse and NetBeans design environments
- Supports local, networked, HDFS and Amazon S3 file systems
- Support for Cascading
- Enables job submission from all major platforms including Windows
- Operates with clusters and file systems behind firewalls
Of particular note are the various charts and visualization tools that help you track your resource usage and efficiency:
These screenshots were captured from this demo video.
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