OK, I stand corrected. Still seems easier to me to just create a Linux virtual machine, but it is nice to have the Windows option.
Chuck ________________________________________ From: Edward Capriolo [edlinuxg...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:49 PM To: user@hive.apache.org 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 easily 10 patches post hive 0.9.0X that are for making things that only worked on linux work natively on windows. Baby steps. Edward On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Connell, Chuck <chuck.conn...@nuance.com> wrote: > 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 through hoops, but not worth the trouble. > > Chuck > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Edward Capriolo [mailto:edlinuxg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:30 PM > To: user@hive.apache.org > Subject: Re: > > Hive does not work under cygwin. We have many issues open to have hive work > natively in windows. > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:57 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
