This document compares different Hadoop distribution vendors (CDH, HW/HDP, MapR, Pivotal HD) based on various metrics across features, open source philosophy, products/technologies, performance, management capabilities, and ecosystem integration. Key criteria include scalability, multi-tenancy, open source contributions, cloud/mobile products, support offerings, data processing, analytics, SQL capabilities, security, management tools, and partner technologies/connectors. The industry norm is to use two implementations to avoid over-reliance on any one vendor and leverage different feature sets.