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Hadoop JavaScript– Microsoft’s VB shift for Big Data

Posted in BigData, Random Thoughts, tagged , , on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

One of the cool things about the Hadoop on Azure CTP is its Interactive JavaScript Console – it allows users query and visualize data on top HDFS using a JavaScript framework.  For example, below is a graph pie visualization within a browser generated by the Interactive JavaScript console using graph.pie function. Why is this important [...]

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Connecting Power View to Hadoop on Azure–An #awesomesauce way to view Big Data in the Cloud

Posted in BigData, PowerPivot, Reporting Services, tagged , , on February 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »

The post Connecting PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure – Self Service BI to Big Data in the Cloud provided the step-by-step details on how to connect PowerPivot to your Hadoop on Azure cluster.   And while this is really powerful, one of the great features as part of SQL Server 2012 is Power View (formerly known [...]

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Moving data to compute or compute to data? That is the Big Data question

Posted in BigData, SQL, tagged , , on January 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Dorky attempts at geek Shakespere aside; as the volume, complexity, and variability of your data systems increase in … entropy …, this becomes a fundamental question in whether one scales up or scale out their data problem. Apologies for the nerdy chemistry references in advance – which starts with this picture of Dr. Arthur Grosser [...]

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Cool Hadoop on Azure How To Videos by @bradoop

Posted in BigData, Cloud, tagged , on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

A big shout out to Brad Sarsfield (@bradoop) for creating these great How-To videos for Hadoop on Azure.   How To: Upload Data and Use the WordCount Sample with Hadoop Services for Windows Azure (video)     Run the Pi Estimator Sample on Hadoop on Windows Azure (video)

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Scale Up or Scale Out your Data Problems? A Space Analogy

Posted in BigData, SQL, tagged , , on January 24, 2012 | 7 Comments »

As I am writing more about Big Data, I’m been asked whether we need to have traditional relational or cube systems now that we have Big Data / NoSQL / Hadoop.  My responses are to note that these are different systems that serve different purposes even though both are used to better understand data. But [...]

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Connecting PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure – Self Service BI to Big Data in the Cloud

Posted in BigData, Cloud, PowerPivot, SQL, tagged , , on January 21, 2012 | 11 Comments »

. “I caught a fish thiiiiis biiig” – On stage with Ted Kummert during the PASS 2011 Keynote on Big Data (thanks to Karen Lopez @datachick for the pic) . . During the PASS 2011 Keynote (back in October 2011), I had the honor to demo Hadoop on Windows / Azure.   One of the key [...]

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Hadoop on Azure: HiveQL query against Azure Blob Storage

Posted in BigData, tagged , , , on January 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The posting Setup Azure Blob Store for Hadoop on Azure CTP provides a quick way to upload files to your Azure Blob storage account and connect Hadoop on Azure CTP to it.  Now that you have done that, one of the first things you may want to do is to interact with the data. To [...]

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Setup Azure Blob Store for Hadoop on Azure CTP

Posted in BigData, tagged , , , on January 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »

One of the cool ways to run Hadoop on Azure is to have it connect to Azure Blob storage via your Windows Azure Storage account.  To setup your Azure storage account, please refer to http://windows.azure.com. The tasks below will allow you to setup your Hadoop on Azure CTP account to connect to an existing Azure [...]

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A funky way to do Hive and Hadoop … on Azure

Posted in BigData, tagged , , , , on January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

. Funny how you can say something in your head and it sounds fine – Doctor Who (Matt Smith in Amy’s Choice) . Recently I had posted the wiki article: Hadoop on Azure Scenario: Query a web log via HiveQL. In it described how to analyze a sample web log using HiveQL on the Hadoop [...]

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An Azure Elephant Never Forgets…

Posted in BigData, Cloud, tagged , on December 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

All your HBase are belong to us Friends, coders, beta testers – lend me your data! . We have more tag lines like that all within the Hadoop on Azure portal!  Click on the image so you can check out the Hadoop on Azure video by clicking on the link – in addition to funky electronica, [...]

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