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When we a talking about Big Data we may mean huge amounts of data (high Volume), data in any format (high Variety), and streaming data (appearing with high Velocity). Microsoft provides solutions for all of these “3V” tasks under unified monitoring, management and security, as well as unified data movement technologies. These
workloads are supported correspondingly by SQL Server Database and Parallel
Data Warehouse, HDInsight (Hadoop for Windows or Azure), and Microsoft SQL
Server StreamInsight.

Let us talk about Microsoft Big Data technology for Non-Relational data.

Microsoft’s adaptation of Hadoop technology can be deployed in a cloud-based environment or on-premises. The Hadoop-based service on the Windows Azure platform is a cloud-based service that offers elastic (in a term of data volumes) analytics on Microsoft’s cloud platform. For customers who want to keep the data within their data centers, Microsoft provides Hadoop-based distribution on Windows Server.

In this blog post, we will start diving into Hadoop in Azure technology and Hive queries to analyze semi-structured data in Hadoop.

In addition to traditional data warehousing, when operational data stored in special structures in Enterprise Data Warehouse, we can store all other raw data in “Store it All” cluster. At any moment, we are able to create query to these data to answer some business question. (In addition, we may store the answer in the Data Warehouse if necessary)

Let me introduce the first part of Bid Data Demonstration where Data Architect will store log files with stock prices and dividends in Azure Blob Storage and will use Hive queries to aggregate data by years and stock tickers into separate file.

Here is the video:

Additional materials: Windows Azure Storage Architecture Overview

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