Hadoop + HBase + Cygwin + Windows 7 x64

In this post I will describe how to get a Hadoop environment with HBase running in Cygwin on Windows 7 x64.Having spent the better part of a week reading through blog posts and documentation, I found that none of them covered the process in full detail, at least not for the software versions I intended to use. This guide was written for Cygwin 1.7.7, Hadoop 0.21.0 and HBase 0.20.6.UPDATE (Nov. 1,