I have a school project that requires Hadoop installation (It is basically so we get familiar with it. I don't see it needing further applications). Would you recommend installing it on my computer (I have a mac with M1) or using parallels and installing it in a windows VM?
TIA
I would definitely not recommend a Windows environment for Hadoop, virtual or not.
If it's a throw away environment, a VM (or Docker setup) would be preferred. However, it's easiest installed directly on the host (brew install hadoop), and will therefore have full access to your machine for multi threading.
Alternatively, cloud providers offer schools deep discounts, and a cluster of several machines is a few clicks away rather than needing to tune everything just for your one machine.
