Microsoft supports Hadoop

Microsoft has decided to support users who want to do Hadoop clusters on Windows Server and Windows Azure. As part of a strategic collaboration with Hortonworks , a stack will be developed for Hadoop . Microsoft promises to publish the code under an open license, making commits to the Apache project at the end of development.

In addition , Microsoft will create “simple versions that can be downloaded, installed and configured” of various technologies related to Hadoop, including HDFS, Hive and Pig. This should encourage corporate customers to use Hadoop.

Hortonworks includes developers who worked on Hadoop at Yahoo. As you know, Yahoo has made a great contribution to the development of this open source project and in February 2008 raised the largest cluster on Hadoop of more than 10,000 Linux servers.

A test version of the Hadoop stack for Windows Azure will be released before the end of 2011, and for Windows Server next year. The new stack will work with Microsoft business software, including Excel, PowerPivot and PowerView.
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This is not the first step from Microsoft to support Hadoop. Last week came the final versions of Hadoop connectors for SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse.

At the same time, Microsoft continues to develop its own systems, which should be an alternative to Hadoop and MapReduce. True, work on projects under the code names Dryad (similar to Hadoop) and Daytona (MapReduce) is far from complete.

At the same time, Microsoft announced that the next version of SQL Server 2012 (Denali) will be released in the first half of 2012, it is now at the CTP 3 stage, then there will be RTM and the final release without a preliminary public beta.

via All About Microsoft