RE: hive under cygwin

2012-11-13 Thread Connell, Chuck
Subject: Re: hive under cygwin Chuck, In the past it was a bit of a "kludge" http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6226.how-to-connect-excel-to-hadoop-on-azure-via-hiveodbc-en-us.aspx But there are several parties very motivated to make this happen. I can say their are

Re: hive under cygwin

2012-11-13 Thread Edward Capriolo
Chuck, In the past it was a bit of a "kludge" http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6226.how-to-connect-excel-to-hadoop-on-azure-via-hiveodbc-en-us.aspx But there are several parties very motivated to make this happen. I can say their are easily 10 patches post hive 0.9.0X tha

RE: hive under cygwin

2012-11-13 Thread Connell, Chuck
This same question comes up about once per week on this list. Anyone who knows how to type "hive cygwin" into a search bar will pretty quickly find that Hadoop is made for native Linux. Is it possible to make Hadoop (and Hive) run under Cygwin? Apparently so, with lots of kludges and jumping t