Is Azure HDInsight is a correct Choice for Hadoop?

Azure HD Insight is a Hadoop service offering hosted in Azure that enables clusters of managed hadoop instances. Azure HDInsight deploys and provisions Apache Hadoop clusters in the cloud, providing a software framework designed to manage, analyze, and report on big data with high reliability and availability. Azure HD Insight is a Hadoop service offering hosted in Azure that enables clusters of managed hadoop instances. . Azure HD Insight uses the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution.

Microsoft’s cloud Hadoop as a Service

100% open source Apache Hadoop

Built on the latest releases across Hadoop (2.4)

Up and running in minutes with no hardware to deploy

Fully managed, operated and supported by Microsoft

Utilize familiar BI tools for analysis including Microsoft Excel

Azure HD Insight is mainly used to deliver hadoop as a service on top of the Azure platform. Organizations can use HD Insight to:

Create hadoop powered big data solution and services Manage and monitor hadoop clusters Analyze and report statistics on big data availability and utilization.

Azure HDInsight: - Type of Cluster:

• Hadoop

• HBase

• Storm

• Spark

• Cluster customization with custom action

The Only Cloud with Choice: Hadoop on Linux or Windows

Hadoop in Azure Offerings

Hadoop in IaaS HDP & CDH Gallery Deployments

OS Options Any CentOS

Hadoop distribution Any Either HDP or CDH

Deployment Up to user From Azure Portal / Scripts

Management Up to user Up to user

Support User acquired through vendor User acquired through vendor

SLA (for Hadoop) None None

OS Updates Up to user Up to user

Hadoop updates Up to user Up to user

Cluster Scaling Up to user No

Connectivity to Azure Blob Storage

Available in Apache Available

Pricing VM cost VM Cost + Vendor support

HDInsight Workloads:

Batch Query Streaming NoSQL

HDInsight: Deploy a Cluster

Deployment Step By Step:--