First steps with Hadoop
Background I need some improvement in one of the batch processes I run. It were build using PHP, parsing text files into mysql database. So for a change I tried to learn Hadoop and Hive Installation 1 Hadoop is a bit more complex than MySQL installation. Ok, so 'a bit' is an understatement. I tried to follow Windows installation procedure from HadoopOnWindows . I downloaded the binary package instead of the source package, because I am not in the mood of waiting mvn downloading endless list of jars. Well, some errors prevented me from continuing this path. Installation 2 Virtual machines seems to be way to go. Not wanting to spend too much time installing and configuring VMs, I installed Vagrant, a tool to download images and configure VMs automatically. VirtualBox is required as Vagrant's default provider, so I installed it too. At first I tried to follow this blog post titled Installing a Hadoop Cluster in Three Commands , but it somehow doesn't work eith...