Proposal for enhancements to Hadoop for Windows Server and Windows Azure
development and runtime environments
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Key: HADOOP-8079
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8079
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: native
Affects Versions: 1.0.0
Reporter: Alexander Stojanovic
Fix For: 1.0.0
This JIRA is intended to capture discussion around proposed work to enhance
Apache Hadoop to run well on Windows. Apache Hadoop has worked on Microsoft
Windows since its inception, but Windows support has never been a priority.
Currently Windows works as a development and testing platform for Hadoop, but
Hadoop is not natively integrated, full-featured or performance and scalability
tuned for Windows Server or Windows Azure. We would like to change this and
engage in a dialog with the broader community on the architectural design
points for making Windows (enterprise and cloud) an excellent runtime and
deployment environment for Hadoop.
The Isotope team at Microsoft (names below) has developed an Apache Hadoop 1.0
patch set that addresses these performance, integration and feature gaps,
allowing Apache Hadoop to be used with Azure and Windows Server without
recourse to virtualization technologies such as Cygwin. We have significant
interest in the deployment of Hadoop across many multi-tenant, PaaS and IaaS
environments - which bring their own unique requirements.
Microsoft has recently completed a CCLA with Apache and would like to
contribute these enhancements back to the Apache Hadoop community.
In the interest of improving Apache Hadoop so that it runs more smoothly on all
platforms, including Windows, we propose first contributing this work to the
Apache community by attaching it to this JIRA. From there we would like to
work with the community to refine the patch set until it is ready to be merged
into the Apache trunk.
Your feedback solicited,
Alexander Stojanovic
Min Wei
David Lao
Lengning Liu
David Zhang
Asad Khan
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