1. Prerequisites Hardware Requirement * RAM — Min. 8GB, if you have SSD in your system then 4GB RAM would also work. * CPU — Min. Quad-core, with at least 1.80GHz JRE 1.8 — Offline installer for JRE Java Development Kit — 1.8 A Software for Un-Zipping like 7Zip or Win Rar * I will be using 64-bit windows for the process, please check and download the version supported by your system x86 or x64 for all the software. Download Hadoop zip * I am using Hadoop-2.9.2, you can use any other STABLE version for Hadoop. Once we have Downloaded all the above software, we can proceed with the next steps in installing the Hadoop. 2. Unzip and Install Hadoop After Downloading the Hadoop, we need to Unzip the Hadoop-2.9.2.tar.gz file. Once extracted, we would get a new file Hadoop-2.9.2.tar. Now, once again we need to extract this tar file. Now we can organize our Hadoop installation, we can create a folder and move the final extracted file in it. For Eg. :- Please note while creating folders