Is it possible to run Hadoop jobs (like the WordCount sample) in the local mode on Windows without Cygwin?

Question

I have Windows 7, Java 8, Maven and Eclipse. I\'ve created a Maven project and used almost exactly the same code as here.

It\'s just a simple \"word count\" sample.

Answer 1

1. Download Hadoop 2.6.0 or 2.7.1 compiled for Windows
2. Create HADOOP_HOME environment variable pointing to the unzipped dir
3. Add %HADOOP_HOME%\bin to PATH env var

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27394808/543836