Since we had two requests today for help on using Hive in Cygwin/Windows, which doesn't work, I wonder if anyone has tried Shark on Windows? Shark is the port of Hive to Spark, which supports a local mode that just might work fine for testing and debugging on windows.
I've only tried Shark on the Mac and I used it with HDFS and my pseudo-distributed mode Hadoop installation, so I have no idea if this will work on Windows and work well. However, I would try it if I were a Windows user ;) Note that Shark is not feature complete with Hive at this time. Also, it might just be easier to bite the bullet and install a virtual machine image of Hadoop on Linux running in VMWare or VirtualBox, anyway. dean -- Dean Wampler, Ph.D. thinkbiganalytics.com +1-312-339-1330
