Installing Hadoop on Windows

We can install Hadoop on Windows in order to evaluate its power, before migrating and configuring full-sized production cluster on a Linux machine. Bear in mind that this configuration is suitable for evaluation or testing purposes only. For a full-fledged production cluster, we need to have a Linux distribution for cluster setup.

  1. Download and install Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com.

    This is a tool that provides native Linux programs to run on Windows.

  2. Download Hadoop, HBase, and Zookeeper. It's better not to download the most recent version as Cygwin does not have full-fledged support. Cluster using Cygwin will just give us the feeling of a cluster when we don't want to directly switch to the Linux OS and first evaluate ...

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