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