Hi Dean, I think using a Linux VM is the current path of least resistance for Windows users who want to experiment with Hive and Hadoop. Cloudera has a CentOS VM with CDH4.1 pre-installed and configured that can be downloaded for free from here:
https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/SUPPORT/Cloudera%27s+Hadoop+Demo+VM+for+CDH4 More info here: http://www.zdnet.com/hadoop-on-your-pc-clouderas-cdh4-virtual-machine-7000003096/ Thanks. Carl On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Dean Wampler < dean.wamp...@thinkbiganalytics.com> wrote: > Reading the Hortonworks page, it looks like only Windows server > configurations are supported. While that's what you want for production > deployments, of course, I have many, many clients would like like to run > Hadoop and Hive on personal computers for development and testing, like you > can do on Mac and Linux personal machines with the Apache distro. I hope > Hortonworks and Microsoft will address this need. > > Also, I laughed out loud when I read this: "Microsoft is notorious for > making things easy and simple ..." > > dean > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:01 AM, imen Megdiche <imen.megdi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> i find that there is WSO2 which works fine under windows, but i still >> want to run hive under cygwin. at the moment i can create tables with the >> commande "hive - e 'sql query '". >> HDP is free ?? >> >> >> 2012/11/14 Russell Jurney <russell.jur...@gmail.com> >> >>> Hadoop and Hive now run natively on Windows via HDP. You do not need >>> Cygwin. You can download this from Microsoft: >>> http://hortonworks.com/partners/microsoft/ >>> >>> We're working to get this open source code back into mainline Apache now. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:57 AM, imen Megdiche >>> <imen.megdi...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> I can not find a solution to run hive under cygwin. >>>> Although hadoop works very well, the command hive starts to turn as >>>> infinite >>>> Thank you in advance for your answers >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney russell.jur...@gmail.com datasyndrome >>> .com >>> >> >> > > > -- > *Dean Wampler, Ph.D.* > thinkbiganalytics.com > +1-312-339-1330 > > >