I know Tajo requires Hadoop to be installed first. But I am not very sure bin/tsql. Is Hadoop required for tsql to run? If so, is there any plan to make it lighter? Any insight/help would be appreciated.
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Currently, Apache Tajo requires Hadoop 2.2 or higher because Tajo depends on some Hadoop libraries. In other words, Tajo just needs an unpacked Hadoop distribution rather than a running Hadoop cluster. So, without a running Hadoop cluster, you can launch a Tajo cluster with local file system or Amazon S3 if you set HADOOP_HOME environment variable to your shell.
Tajo team has a plan to make its Hadoop dependency lighter. After we do so, you could easily deploy and use bin/tsql or Tajo cluster with your storage.