Big Data: Microsoft HDinsight

So far we have covered following topics in Big Data

•             Big Data- The Rise and the Future
•            Big data: Technology Stack
•          Big Data: Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS)
•          Big Data: Map Reduce
•          Big Data- Installing Hadoop ( Single Node)
•          Big Data- Apache Hadoop Multi Node
•          Big Data: Troubleshooting, Administering and optimizing Hadoop
•          Big Data: Managing HDFS
•          Big Data: Map Reduce Development
•          Big Data: Introduction to Pig

• Introduction to Hbase
• Introduction to Zookeeper
• AMAZON ELASTIC MAPREDUCE (EMR)

In this blog we will discuss  Microsoft HDinsight.

HD Insight Overview

- Microsoft Hadoop distribution

-local and cloud hadoop support

-Local: HDinsight server on HDP( hortonworks data platform)

-Cloud:HDinsight on Azure service

HDinsight advantages:

-Full integration with MS BI stack

-SQL server(RDBMS,SSAS,SSRS)

-Sharepoint (Powerview)

-office (Excel)

Lets go to windows azure

here you can create a free trial account. I have already one account

HDinsight is not fully available in windows azure. to enable it you need to go to PREVIEW FEATURES

and enable it.

Thats it. all you need to go to dashboard.