Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Summary
In this chapter, you read about the Windows Azure HDInsight service. You had a look into subscribing to the
HDInsight service, which defaults to the Windows Windows Azure Storage Blob (WASB) as the data repository rather
than to HDFS as in traditional Hadoop. This chapter covered the benefits of using WASB as the storage media in the
cloud, and it mentioned some available tools for uploading data to WASB. Also discussed was the brand new Azure
Flat Network Storage (FNS) designed specifically for improved network bandwidth and throughput.
