Karan Gulati (SSAS Maestro)

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Get started with HDInsight

Get started using Hadoop with Hive in HDInsight to analyze mobile handset use

Get started with HDinsight Emulator

HDInsight Storm overview

Getting started using Storm with HDInsight (Hadoop)

Here are the Hadoop technologies in HDInsight:

Ambari: Cluster provisioning, management, and monitoring

Avro (Microsoft .NET Library for Avro): Data serialization for the Microsoft .NET environment

HBase: Non-relational database for very large tables

HDFS: Hadoop Distributed File System

Hive: SQL-like querying

Mahout: Machine learning

MapReduce and YARN: Distributed processing and resource management

Oozie: Workflow management

Pig: Simpler scripting for MapReduce transformations

Sqoop: Data import and export

Storm: Real-time processing of fast, large data streams

Zookeeper: Coordinates processes in distributed systems