I was thinking about this today and stumbled across hortonworks sandbox which is a whole bunch of big data stuff including hadoop set up to run on a vm with a l

I was thinking about this today and stumbled across hortonworks sandbox which is a whole bunch of big data stuff including hadoop set up to run on a vm with a load of tutorials built in. Seems like it would be worth checking out! http://hortonworks.com/products/sandbox/ http://hortonworks.com/products/sandbox/