We bring you, free for download (cue music, mostly trumpets) a new version of Karmasphere Studio. And we’ve bolted on a new version number which is much bigger than the previous one to give you some sense of the importance of the change

If Hadoop were a theme park, then here are some of the rides we hope you will enjoy:

Interactive visual debugging of a MapReduce job.

• Traces dataflows through a MapReduce process, live as you edit code.
• Tells you what will go wrong with your job, BEFORE it does.

Two-click deployment of a Hadoop job.

• We’d say one click but it’s nice to customize parameters sometimes.

No-click monitoring, graphing, management and post-hoc analysis.

• Tells you what went wrong with your job after it did.

Support for Cascading

• If you don’t know what this is yet, you really should.

New samples library to help you get into MapReduce with Hadoop.

• Click on the code, see what it does.
  

Support for Streaming.

• It’s rather nice, when you have menus!

All new tutorials with updated screenshots, showing just what you and your family can enjoy for the price of one free download.

Full cross-platform support

• Job submission, HDFS and S3 browsing from Windows, MacOS or Linux.
• Let’s read that bit again. Karmasphere Studio makes job submission work from Windows desktops. Point. Click. Go.

New and improved Amazon support

• So all you need to get started with Hadoop is … well, nothing, really.

Get it and we all hope you have at least as much fun as we do.