HDP runs on Windows: http://hortonworks.com/products/hdp-windows/#install
I don't know if it uses Cygwin or not but everything needed to run Hive on Windows should be in the install package. Eric From: Ian Jackson [mailto:ian_jack...@trilliumsoftware.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 8:55 AM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Hive on Windows w/Hadoop 2.2.0 Reading the Wiki (cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/GettingStarted), it states "It does not work on Cygwin." Do further details exist or hints to make work on Windows?
