HDInsight Hadoop Hive - Setup

Let’s explore Hadoop Hive, shall we?

Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop for providing data summarization, query, and analysis.

It was originally build by Facebook as an abstraction on top of Hadoop Map Reduce and now is an open source...

Major upgrade to Azure DocumentDB LINQ provider

Early Septembre 2015, Microsoft has announced a major upgrade to the LINQ Provider of the .NET SDK of DocumentDb.

I know it does appear a bit confusing since when DocumentDb was released (a year ago now), it was said that it supported SQL.  Well, it supported some SQL.

Now...

Hadoop ecosystem overview

Have taken a look at Hadoop lately?

People who do not know Hadoop think it’s a big data technology the same way SQL Server is a technology.

But Hadoop is more of an ecosystem of different modules interacting together.  This is its major strength and also the source of its major...

Strong AI & Existential Risks

There has been a recrudescence of hysterical talks about Strong Artificial Intelligence (AI) lately.

Strong AI is artificial intelligence matching and eventually going beyond the full human cognitive capacity.  Weak AI, by opposition, is the replication of some facets of human cognition:  face recognition, voice recognition, pattern matching, etc.  .

The...

SQL Server In-Memory value and use cases

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 has made it in the leader category of Forrester’s recent In-Memory Database Platforms, Q3 2015 report.

SQL Server 2014 was behind SAP’s Hana, Oracle TimesTen & IBM DB2 with BLU acceleration.  It was on pare with Teradata Intelligent Memory.  Those were the leaders.  Following were...