[dba-Tech] Hortonworks: Hadoop, Windows, ODBC, and Azure

Hi all

 

If you (like me) refrain from messing around with Linux or Solaris servers
but would like to check out a Big Data database like Hadoop, Hortonworks
offers a free Windows implementation:

 

    http://hortonworks.com/products/hdp-windows/

 

They even offer downloads of virtual machines for developing purposes and an
ODBC-driver and a guide for using Excel to access such data:

 

 
http://hortonworks.com/hadoop-tutorial/how-to-use-excel-2013-to-access-hadoo
p-data/

 

Also, a lot of other guides and tutorials are offered.

 

Further, if you wish to run Hadoop hosted on Azure, it seems quite easy to
do:

 

   http://hortonworks.com/partner/microsoft/

 

Everything is open-source.

 

/gustav