Hi Mike,
Why does Dr. Elephant make sense as a separate project instead of
> contributing to Hadoop directly?
>
Here are a couple reasons why I think Dr. Elephant is more likely to
succeed as a separate project:
* Dr. Elephant supports Hadoop *and* Spark, and may support other
execution layers in the future. If we make Dr. Elephant a part of
Hadoop I expect that it will discourage contributions from people
who are interested mainly in Spark support, and vice versa.
* If Dr. Elephant is added to Hadoop it will be necessary for the
Hadoop project to declare a dependency on Spark. I doubt this change
will get approved.
* We don't want to tie Dr. Elephant to a specific version of Hadoop or
Spark, or tie the Dr. Elephant release cycle to the Hadoop or Spark
release cycles.
* None of the current Dr. Elephant committers are Hadoop committers,
and I doubt that the Hadoop PMC is going to give them a commit bit
just to work on Dr. Elephant. As a result the existing committers
would be effectively forfeiting their right to continue maintaining
their own project. I think this is one of the reasons why many
Hadoop contrib projects are poorly maintained.
> What is the relationship between Dr. Elephant and the (now seemingly
> defunct) Hadoop Vaidya?
>
Vaidya was a command line tool for tuning Hadoop jobs. Dr. Elephant is
an always-on service for tuning Hadoop and Spark jobs. We were unaware
of Vaidya when we started working on Dr. Elephant.
- Carl
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