Till September 2019, it was possible to get the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) binary packages and use them free of charge.<p>After the merger with Cloudera, you need either a subscription or just get access to the plain source code which you need to fiddle out how to get your local HDP cluster to update.<p>Who of the HN readers used the Hortonworks platform or another Hadoop "distribution" without subscription and what are you using in 2020?<p>Are there solutions or distributions I haven't seen?