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Our support matrix in our documentation lists the currently-supported Hadoop distributions. Make sure that the Hadoop distribution you want to use is supported:
- Support Matrix for 5.2 (Support for CDH 5.2 was added in the December 2014 service pack. See the Pentaho Support Portal to obtain the service pack.)
- Support Matrix for 5.3
NOTE: Pentaho is pre-configured for Apache Hadoop 0.20.2. If you are using this distribution and version, no further configuration is required.
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