Table 1 Basic features of 14 Hadoop distributions and related download links

Amazon Web Services Inc

• Amazon Elastic Block Store

http://aws.amazon.com/

• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

• GPU Instances

• High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster

IBM Corp

• Social and Machine Data Analytics Accelerator

http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/infobigienteedit/

• Provides a workload scheduler

• Includes Jaql, a declarative query language.

• Allows executing R jobs directly from the BigInsights web console.

Pivotal Corp

• A Fast, Proven SQL Database Engine for Hadoop

http://www.gopivotal.com/products/pivotal-hd

• Enterprise Real-Time Data Service on Hadoop

• Familiar SQL Interface

• Hadoop In the Cloud: Pivotal HD Virtualized by VMware

Cloudera Inc

• HDFS Snapshots

http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/products-and-services/cloudera-enterprise.html

• Support for running Hadoop on Microsoft Windows

• YARN API stabilization

• Binary Compatibility for MapReduce applications built on hadoop-1.x

MapR Technologies Inc

• Finish small jobs quickly with MapR ExpressLane

http://www.mapr.com/products/only-with-mapr

• Enable atomic, consistent point-in-time recovery with MapR Snapshots

Hortonworks Inc

• Use rich business intelligence (BI) tools such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPivot for Excel and Power View

http://hortonworks.com/products/hdp/

• HDP for Windows is the ONLY Hadoop distribution available for Windows Server.

Karmasphere Inc

• Ability to Use Existing SAS, SPSS and R Analytic Models

http://www.karmasphere.com/product-overview/key-features/

Hadapt Inc

• Analyze both structured and unstructured data in a single, unified platform

http://hadapt.com/product/

Super Micro Computer Inc

• Fully-validated, pre-configured SKUs optimized for Hadoop solutions

http://www.supermicro.com/products/rack/hadoop.cfm

Pentaho Corp

• Visual development for Hadoop data preparation and modeling

http://www.pentahobigdata.com/ecosystem/platforms/hadoop

Zettaset Inc

• Enterprise-Grade Hadoop Cluster Management

http://www.zettaset.com/platform.php

Datastax Inc

• Powered by Apache Cassandra™, Certified for Production

http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/datastax-enterprise/apache-hadoop

Datameer Inc

• Data Integration, Analytics, and Visualization

http://www.datameer.com/

Dell Inc

• Cloudera distribution for Hadoop

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/solutions/hadoop-big-dataSolution?c=us&l=en&s=biz&cs=555