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.
Download and install Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com.
This is a tool that provides native Linux programs to run on Windows.
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 it on Windows.
Copy the downloaded Hadoop file to
c:\cygwin\usr\local, which is the default location of Cygwin when installed.Open Cygwin and extract Hadoop, HBase, and ZooKeeper TAR, which we copied inside the Cygwin folder. We will find it at...