I have been working with Hadoop for quite a few years now and frequently find myself needing to try bits of code out on multiple distributions. During these times, the Single Node virtual editions of the various Hadoop distributions have always been my goto resource. Of all the VMs available, I believe the most seamless and well done version is the Hortonworks Sandbox. In fact, in the work I am starting now, to build a new PHD3.0 and HAWQ virtual playground, I view the Hortonworks Sandbox as the bar that needs to be exceeded. When we at Pivotal first announced HAWQ would be available on HDP, some of my first thoughts were about how nice it would be to provide customers the ability to install HAWQ directly onto the Hortonworks Sandbox to provide them with a place to take the software for a spin. Earlier this week, I had a request to do a live customer demonstration of installing HAWQ on HDP 2.2.4 leveraging Ambari. This activity kicked off those Sandbox thoughts again an
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