YCSB is made to run on Windows systems given some additional software. The following instructions are broken into sections based on running from an existing release and building from the source. Users are encouraged to rely on published releases where possible.
These instructions cover running the YCSB client on your Windows machine. It does not cover any steps needed to run any datastore instances you may wish to evaluate. Please see the documentation for a given datastore to see what steps are needed to run an instance on Windows.