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18-06-2012 13:22 Microsoft TechDays 2012: Presentation of Gert Drapers on Hadoop the open source addition to Microsoft Azure Gert Drapers explains Big Data and the relationship between Microsoft SQL Server as a RDMS and the open source Hadoop system. Since Oct 12 2011 Microsoft is committed to Hadoop on Azure, the Microsoft cloud system in close cooperation with Hortonworks. Drapers elaborates on key components of Hadoop like HDFS, Hadoop Distributed File System, Hive& Pig, Sqoop. Additions to Hadoop are given back to the Hadoop Community. Drapers emphasizes the true essence of what Hadoop means for the cloud: failure free operations, meaning that in the cloud, it is not the question if something goes wrong, but when it goes wrong. Hadoop effectively delivers a very redundant environment where disk failure does not matter because data is stored in many places. Hadoop was basically invented by Google en adopted by the open source community. Gert Drapers:,,What is the big deal about Big Data? It is a very interesting acronym soup. Some people say that it is all about size, but I don't think that is true. That is one of the trends that we see today. Servers has become dirt cheap and is much more economically sensible to stack up pizza boxes. Big Data also means NOSQL to a lot of people. Those two are actually not necessarily correlated. I'll make that distinction in a moment. You will find there MongoDB and CouchDB. So let us look at some stats. If we look at the US market, in 2009 it was ...

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