HDInsight – What is it?
HDInsight is Microsoft’s Hadoop-based distribution.
HDInsight comes in two flavors:
HDInsight Server for local on-premise installation of the Hadoop distribution, this will allow to build local cluster with your own Hadoop Hive able to run Hadoop Jobs, on top of that fully integration with Microsoft BI Stack
HDInsight on Azure Service is the easiest way to deploy, manage and scale Hadoop based solution. Current release includes:
- HDFS and Map/Reduce
- Pig
- Hive
- Sqoop
HDInsight:
Yes, its Excel 2013 PowerPivot if you refer step 9 you will notice that I have used PowerPivot, ir-respective of build. if you have ODBC provider in place you can use Excel 2010 PowerPivot or excel 2013 PowerPivot.
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