Big Data is creating a tsunami in the current IT world. Every firm / product company is investing heavily in this space. Microsoft is not an excuse in the race of open sourced big data technology platform.
As Microsoft shifted their strategy towards open source in recent years, they focused their Big Data efforts with Hortonworks. The resultant product is named as HDInsight ,with general availability since October 2013:
On reviewing the history, Google published its trade secret in 2004 using the MapReduce research paper. Then, it was available for everyone to use as an open source. On similar lines, Doug Cutting used to ...
