title: Cygwin mandatory for Hive on windows
body: <p>I have set up Hadoop 2.5.2 on my windows 7 machine. The requirement is to load flat files on hadoop and process the data on the flat file and render a report out of it. Technologies decided are Hadoop 2.5.2, Spark and Hive. However in case of hive on windows we need to use Cygwin (becoz hive is developed for unix environment and to use it we need Cygwin). The question here is, can we use Hive on windows without Cygwin or do we have any other alternative for Hive on windows. 
  The reason we don't want to use Cygwin is we need to have every installation and files under Cygwin.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Santha </p>