Sure, Drill can run standalone without Hadoop. Can you share the details of the exception.
> On Mar 10, 2015, at 7:19 PM, Fengjiao Jiang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use drill on windows but failed to start it following the > tutorial online. The exception prompted out made me doubt if the failure > was caused by, I don't have Hadoop installed on my local machine. Does > drill need a %HADOOP_HOME% to run? > > > I know MR has a sandbox with drill that users can installed with virtual > box. Is that the only way without a hadoop? > > Thanks.
