How to Install Hadoop on Windows 10/11 [2026 Updated]
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Stack Overflow users cite it as the Hadoop-on-Windows install guide they followed, usually when asking why the NameNode, DataNode or YARN fails after setup.
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What it is
A step-by-step screen-recorded tutorial for installing Apache Hadoop on Windows 10/11. It covers installing the JDK, setting HADOOP_HOME, adding the WinUtils binaries, editing the config files, formatting the NameNode, and starting HDFS and YARN, then running a test MapReduce job. It is presented by the BigData 101 channel.
What people said
Cites Hitesh Somani · 2018-07 · Stack Overflow · on “NoClassDefFoundError org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/timelineservice/collector/TimelineCollectorManager”
Version of Hadoop is 3.0.3 and I have not set any Yarn class path. I have set java bin path, hadoop bin path and hadoop sbin path. I followed this tutorial on youtube to install hadoop: [this video] If we have to set yarn class path can you tell me in a little more detail about how to set or what would be the location of the yarn class. Thanks in advance
Cites Tom Hood · 2019-03 · Stack Overflow · on “Apache Hadoop Windows 10 - Datanode, Resource Manager and Yarn immediately shutdown on startup”
I have followed a tutorial to setup Apache Hadoop for Windows, which can be found here [this video] . I am now having an issue with the Datanode, Resource Manager, and Yarn cmd windows showing that all 3 shutdown seconds after opening, with only the Namenode continuing to run. Here is the process I have tried so far: run CMD as admin use command start-all.cmd (this opens the Namenode, Datanode, Yarn, and Resourcemanager cmd windows) Datanode, Yarn, and Resource manager all give shutdown messages almost immediately after they start SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down ResourceManager at thood-alienware/... SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NodeManager at thood-alienware/... SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down DataNode a
Cites Pairnatus · 2020-03 · Stack Overflow · on “Hadoop namenode formatting windows - java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException”
I am in a databasing class at school and my professor is having us work with hadoop v3.2.1. In following a youtube tutorial to install on windows, I am stuck on the formatting namenode part. this is what comes up in cmd: 2020-03-15 15:38:05,819 INFO util.GSet: Computing capacity for map NameNodeRetryCache 2020-03-15 15:38:05,819 INFO util.GSet: VM type = 64-bit 2020-03-15 15:38:05,820 INFO util.GSet: 0.029999999329447746% max memory 889 MB = 273.1 KB 2020-03-15 15:38:05,820 INFO util.GSet: capacity = 2^15 = 32768 entries 2020-03-15 15:38:05,883 INFO namenode.FSImage: Allocated new BlockPoolId: BP-381120843-10.0.0.230-1584301085876 2020-03-15 15:38:05,884 ERROR namenode.NameNode: Failed to st