Microsoft Goes In For Hadoop

Frankie70 writes that after more than three years, Microsoft has "finally learned to stop worrying and love Hadoop." Frankie70 excerpts from the linked Wired article: "Any aversion to Hadoop disappeared on Wednesday, when the company announced that it will integrate the platform with future versions of its relational database, SQL Server, and its platform cloud, Windows Azure, an online service for hosting and readily scaling applications. The company is now working to port the Hadoop platform to Windows."

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Hadoop is written in Java

[binarylarry]

So what they mean is, they're going to do a search and replace to make it compile as a C# application.

Heh

[Hatta]

Someone should trick Timothy into reposting this article. Then he'd be duped into posting a dupe about hadoop.

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

[mrflash818]

"Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

"Embrace, extend and extinguish,"[1] also known as "Embrace, extend and exterminate,"[2] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[3] was used internally by Microsoft[4] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

as usual, the summary here is lacking

[tomzyk]

its relational database, SQL Server, and its platform cloud, Windows Azure, an online service for hosting and readily scaling applications

That's wonderful that the summary mentions what "SQL Server" and "Azure" are... but why no mention of wtf "Hadoop" is?
Why do I need to RTFA just to find out what we're talking about here?

Hadoop — an open source platform for crunching epic amounts of a data across an army of dirt-cheap servers

Re:Not wanting to put a dampener on things...

[jbolden]

I think they are telling the truth about their goals:

1) Get Hadoop to work on Windows servers
2) Create a Windows server management interface for Hadoop
3) Create SQL Server extension to manage Hadoop.

And the motive is:
a) Sell server licenses
b) Sell SQL Server licenses

Re:Dont look behind that curtian!

[jbolden]

If you look at their todo list they could release it constantly it won't matter. What they are doing is essentially creating extensions for their commercial products that work with Hadoop. I think they have every intention of trying to get the small parts that need to be in Hadoop back into the main tree.

Re:Dryad

[mandelbr0t]

Dryad is not quite Hadoop. From their whitepaper:

We can map the whole relational algebra on top of Dryad, however Dryad is not a database engine: it does not include a query planner or optimizer; the system has no concept of data schemas or indices; and Dryad does not support transactions or logs

I can see how Hadoop would supplement their own research in this field.