Most likely you are running into DRILL-1733[1]. Even though Drill does not require a Hadoop cluster, it uses some of the libraries from Hadoop to abstract the access to the filesystem.
If you build the latest development branch or download the nightly build from Apache build server[2], you should be able to get past the errors. aditya... [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-1733 [2] https://builds.apache.org/job/drill-scm/ On Tue, 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. >
