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I was unable to configure the HBase standalone instance. Following are the steps I followed:

  1. Downloaded hbase-0.98.9-hadoop2 and extracted it.
  2. Set my JAVA_HOMEin the environment variables.
  3. Edited conf/hbase-site.xml and changed the configuration as mentioned in the Apache HBase quick start guide.
  4. Ran the bin/start-hbase.sh and this error came up.

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Can anyone tell me what I'm missing or doing wrong? Thanks

Sibtain
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Here are the steps: http://hbase.apache.org/cygwin.html

Hbase cannot be installed without cygwin tooling.

as77
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  • Please add the steps to your answer instead of just referencing a website which might disappear later. – Marwie Feb 06 '15 at 16:57
  • The link is the official documentation on how to install HBase on windows, and maintained by HBase project. – as77 Feb 06 '15 at 19:43
  • Thanks for the reply. But in the HBase standalone installation [guide](http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#quickstart), it doesn't mention cygwin anywhere – Sibtain Feb 07 '15 at 16:57
  • HBase installation has quite a few prerequisites, most of which are difficult to install without cygwin. See http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#basic.prerequisites Though I can't be sure as I haven't installed hbase on windows, (and don't know of anyone who has), I think you will have an easier time installing and working with HBase using cygwin than without. – as77 Feb 08 '15 at 18:46
  • Well I managed to start Hbase in standalone mode. As it turned out, HMaster was not running! So I downloaded a previous version in my case **hbase-0.94.26**, DID NOT do the configuration in 'hbase-site.xml', and simply ran 'start-hbase.sh'. Then ran it again to make sure that HMaster was running. And in this case I was using Linux. Btw thanks for your help :) – Sibtain Feb 09 '15 at 10:58
  • @as77 I'm now going to configure HBase using cygwin in Windows. Acutally I'm trying to use the HBase API in java and play around with it. So I prefer to use it on Windows where I can use it in eclipse easily – Sibtain Feb 09 '15 at 12:16