I can't find any information on how possible or difficult it is to install Hadoop as a single node on Windows 8 running Oracle Java 8. The tutorial on Hadoop 2 on Windows mentions neither Windows 8 nor Java 8.
Is there anything known about this?
I want to know the installation and configuration of Apache Hadoop and Programming Paradigm for working on it..
We use both Gzip and Snappy compression so I want a way to determine how a specific file is compressed. The closest I found is the GETCODEC but that relies on the file name suffix ... which dont exist since Reducers typically dont add a suffix to the filenames they create.
