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10.3.2.11 HDInsight service
The HDInsight is the service which provides complete Hadoop infrastructure on cloud. This service uses
Hortonworks as distribution platform. It supports different versions of Hadoop components. HDInsight enable
developer to do code with various platform such as eclipse, Scala, python and R etc. The service protect your
assets by providing sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication and AAD options and also support of Jupyter and
Zeppelin for Data scientists.
Supported components
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/hdinsight-component-versioning10.3.2.12 Azure Active Directory
Azure AD is identity management service. It has capabilities of multi-factor authentication, device registration,
self-service password management, role based access control, application usage monitoring, rich auditing, group
based access management and security monitoring and alerting. Azure AD can be used to secure on-premises
devices also.
Reference
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-whatis10.3.2.13 Azure Data lake store
Azure data lake store is designed for big data analytics workload, it can be accessible from HDInsight cluster
on cloud using Web-HDFS REST API. This store is compatible with different open source projects. Azure Data
Lake enables you to capture data of any size, type, and ingestion speed in one single place for operational and
exploratory analytics.
Compatible open source projects
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-lake-store/data-lake-store-compatible-oss-other-applicationsFeatures
• Provides authentication (to all stored data in data lake store), access control (to directory and files in
store) and encryption (on data stored in store)
• Support Geo-redundancy on cloud.
10.3.2.14 Microsoft - Power BI:
Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service that gives a single view of most critical business data.
Developers can access diverse data source such as on-premises analysis technologies like SSAS, database
services and analysis services that run in the cloud, and cloud applications from Microsoft and other vendors.
They can create monitor the health of business using a live dashboard, create rich interactive reports with Power
BI Desktop and access data on the go with native Power BI Mobile apps.
References
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/features/41