Big Data and Analytics

December 4, 2018December 5, 2018

A Complete Walkthrough of Azure Cosmos DB and Why Should You Use It

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s fully managed, globally distributed and horizontally scalable cloud service. It’s a multi-model NoSQL database that provides independent scaling across all the Azure regions. Additionally, Azure Cosmos DB has an extensive tooling and API support for different programming paradigms. Making it easier for users who have an existing NoSQL / Cloud …

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December 16, 2013

Retrieve Records in SSIS Script Task

Overview You are developing an SSIS package. You want to work with a record in a Script Task. This blog discusses how you can get access to the Records in the Script task using the Object Type variable.

September 11, 2013June 19, 2017

The Basics of Hadoop

In this blog series, we will discuss the Hadoop ecosystem (with a focus on Hortonworks distribution of Hadoop for Windows Server and HDInsight Service for Azure) – core technologies such as HDFS and MapReduce, Pig (containing a data flow language to support writing queries and dataset transformation on large datasets using richer data structures than …

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July 3, 2013April 19, 2018

Microsoft’s Big Data Strategy

A number of people thought that Microsoft was not paying much attention to the Big Data space and that all developments were happening in the Linux platform. Well, Microsoft was working in the background and exploring ways to provide these offerings using the familiar Microsoft tools. Below is an overview of the various components in …

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May 7, 2013June 19, 2017

What is Big Data?

Big Data has been a topic of intense discussion and media hype during the last year or two. A number of people have asked Netwoven consultants the following questions: