My guess is that a lot of big data is deployed on linux, and thus the development environment as well as the well known deployment routines on linux revolves around tools that traditionally work well on Linux, like the headless JRE (for the servers) and Eclipse/Netbeans/IntelliJ (for the development environment).
Can you even set up a bunch of windows server nodes without running into a licensing headache?
Can you even set up a bunch of windows server nodes without running into a licensing headache?