List of different hadoop distribution.

Cloudera CDH,Manager, and Enterprise

Based on Hadoop 2, CDH (version 4.1.2 as of this writing) includes HDFS, YARN, HBase, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Zookeeper, Oozie, Mahout, Hue, and other open source tools (including the real-time query engine — Impala).

Hortonworks Data Platform

Based on Hadoop 2, this distribution (Version 2.0 Alpha as of this writing) includes HDFS, YARN, HBase, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, HCatalog, Zookeeper, Oozie, Mahout, Hue, Ambari, Tez, and a realtime version of Hive (Stinger) and other open source tools.

MapR  Based on Hadoop 1, this distribution (Version M7 as of this writing)

includes HDFS, HBase, MapReduce, Hive, Mahout, Oozie, Pig, ZooKeeper, Hue, and other open source tools. It also includes direct NFS access, snapshots, and mirroring for “high availability,” a proprietary HBase implementation that is fully compatible with Apache APIs, and a MapR management console.

IBM InfoSphere BigInsights

As of this writing, this is based on Hadoop 1 and available in two editions. The Basic Edition includes HDFS, Hbase, MapReduce, Hive, Mahout, Oozie, Pig, ZooKeeper, Hue, and several other open source tools, as well as a basic version of the IBM installer and data access tools.

GreenPlum’s Pivotal HD

As of this writing, this is based on Hadoop 2, and includes HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, HBase, Zookeeper, Sqoop, Flume, and other open source tools.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

As of this writing, this is based on Hadoop 1. Amazon EMR is a web service that enables users to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Windows Azure HDInsight

Based on the Hortonworks Data Platform (Hadoop 1), this runs in the Azure cloud. It is integrated with the Microsoft management console for easy deployment and integration with System Center. It can be integrated with Excel through a Hive Excel plug-in.