https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/does-hadoop-works-same-on-windows-as-linux/m-p/211619#M173561 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/74165/shadab2266.html" nodeid="74165">@Mohammad Shadab</A></P><P>Windows Operating System is not mentioned in the Tested &amp; Certified Support Matrix list here: <A href="https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.6.4/bk_support-matrices/content/ch01.html" target="_blank">https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.6.4/bk_support-matrices/content/ch01.html</A></P><P>So it is better to be on the supported versions. If you want to use apache hadoop community version then you should refer to : <A href="https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hadoop2OnWindows" target="_blank">https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hadoop2OnWindows</A> (although the link seems to be to old and outdated)</P><P>Better will be to use the Linux based OS instead of Windows for running hadoop components.</P> Tue, 10 Apr 2018 06:56:08 GMT jsensharma 2018-04-10T06:56:08Z