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Azure HDInsight Overview

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What is Azure HDInsight?

HDInsight is a fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA.

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HDInsight is a fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA.

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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately

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"Great Data Processing Tool For all your Data needs"
The best feature of Azure HDInsight is that it leverages the Azure Datalake for HDFS Data instead of consuming disk space of the cluster. It also c...
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Fairly easy to enable off older Datalake platforms
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What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

If i had to be completely honest i love how the system allows me to be lazy.. it simply does all the work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

It takes a little while to get used to but that’s not really a negative Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The system allows for more accurate information synthesis and analysis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

The software is cost-effective for my organization's open source analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

Sometimes it lags, but it truly hasn't been a big deal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure HDInsight solving and how is that benefiting you?

The software seamlessly processes large amounts of data and gets all the benefits of large open sourcing because of the global scale of Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Awesome product for open source analytics.

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What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

If I had to say anything here it would be the cost for enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Data scenarios Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

Simple to setup a cluster and use whenever is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

It is very costly to run MapReduce jobs in cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure HDInsight:

Use it if you want to implement your system in cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure HDInsight solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using HDInsight for our traffic analytics and incident detection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

Great collection of open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, LLAP, Kafka, Storm, R, etc. Great ETL capability! Best cloud platform for IoT. Great flexible pricing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

Nothing in particular, but would like more built in tools for managed services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Best cloud based bigdata platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure HDInsight solving and how is that benefiting you?

IoT data analysis, data warehousing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

Azure is a fantastic platform for monitoring performance. Everything is right at your fingertips, and is easy to access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

It's a little training intensive. It usually took so long to teach clients how to use it that it was easier to simply control it for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Be ready for some intensive training for your admins. Otherwise this is a great product! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure HDInsight?

Azure has a tremendous selection of built-in deployment tool for virtual machines and servers in the cloud. The marketplace is divided into Compute, Networking, Storage, Web+Mobile, Databases, Intelligence/Analytics, IoE, Security, etc. For the sake of my project, Hadoop Hortonworks came standardized. Little setup and configuration is needed on the user side, other than choosing the amount of cpu/nodes you required and what the purposes of the VM will be. Customization can be done during the initial setup or after it's completed (for instance specifying an static IP address). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure HDInsight?

There were times that terminating (shutting down) a virtual machines did not succeed properly. In which case, the VM would still run in the background and you will continuously billed for the time that your server is running. I learned this the hard way and I would wait on the browser screen until the termination of the server is complete and then shut off the browser window. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure HDInsight solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used an academic version of Microsoft Azure in conjunction with Hadoop Hortonworks to run an ETL Datawarehouse with an Tableau desktop application to visualize the data inputs for NYC high school graduation rates and SAT test scores. Ease of usage, relatively low maintenance cost and the ability to share the work space in a collaborative setting were excellent benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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