Installation of Hadoop in Windows

#Hadoop installation on windows

Hadoop is an Apache framework used to process a large amount of data with a parallel process. Hadoop is used for Linux flavors systems for production use. As a developer, To explore more things on Hadoop, we need a start on windows.

As Hadoop is developed and executed in Linux flavors, We have many options to set up on windows with either Cygwin or VM player.

I am going to list down the steps required for installation and configuring Hadoop on Windows using Cygwin.

What is Cygwin:- Cygwin is a mock environment for windows-based systems to run as Linux-based systems. They provided command-line interfaces which process these commands and call the windows dll and APIs. So you need of knowing most Unix commands for this.

It is free and open-source software.

1. Download Cygwin from the Cygwin site and click on setup.exe. and select type OpenSSH in the search box in Selected Package as below and install required dependencies.

Once Cygwin is installed in your system, make sure that it works.

2. make sure you set JAVA_HOME to point to jdk1.5 or jdk1.6 in your environment variable

3. try to unpack the Hadoop Hadoop rar distribution In the distribution,

type the below command c:\ bin/Hadoop

Now you are ready to start the Hadoop node

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