Additional Configuration for Optimized WHERE Processing on Microsoft Windows

On Microsoft Windows, to perform WHERE processing in the Hadoop cluster with MapReduce, you must add the cross-platform property to the mapred-site.xml cluster configuration file. The property specifies that the platform neutral CLASSPATH should be used. Here is an example.
<property>
   <name>mapreduce.app-submission.cross-platform</name>
   <value>true</value>
</property>