title: Hadoop or Hadoop Streaming for MapReduce on AWS
body: <p>I'm about to start a mapreduce project which will run on AWS and I am presented with a choice, to either use Java or C++.</p>
  
  <p>I understand that writing the project in Java would make more functionality available to me, however C++ could pull it off too, through Hadoop Streaming.</p>
  
  <p>Mind you, I have little background in either language. A similar project has been done in C++ and the code is available to me.</p>
  
  <p>So my question: is this extra functionality available through AWS or is it only relevant if you have more control over the cloud? Is there anything else I should bear in mind in order to make a decision, like availability of plugins for hadoop that work better with one language or the other?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>