Hortonworks is shipping version 2.0

Hortonworks have new release as Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0. In summary, the release has few highlights as follows

Enterprise Ready YARN, the Hadoop Operating System

With Hadoop 2, Apache Hadoop YARN serves as the Hadoop operating system, and takes Hadoop from a single-use data platform for batch processing to a multi-use platform that enables batch, interactive, online and stream processing.

Stinger Phase 2; Interactive SQL Queries at Petabyte Scale

• The Stinger Initiative was launched at the beginning of 2013 as a broad community-based effort to enhance the speed, scale and breadth of SQL semantics supported by Apache Hive. Hive 0.12 represents phase 2 of the Stinger Initiative and HDP 2.0 is a significant step forward for Hive, the de-facto standard for SQL access in Hadoop.
• Reliable NoSQL IN Hadoop with HBaseApache HBase 0.96 is the culmination of more than a year’s worth of effort that’s delivered important enterprise features such as Snapshots and improved MTTR
• Manage & Monitor YARN and a Hadoop 2 clusterApache Ambari 1.4.1 allows you to provision, manage and monitor a cluster based on the Hadoop 2 stack. This includes YARN, MapReduce 2 and support for enabling native NameNode High Availability (HA).You can read the whole report here in zdnet site.