Microsoft wants the upcoming SQL Server 2012 and the Azure cloud platform to work with the Hadoop platform from the Apache Foundation. Hadoop enables companies to petabytes of information accessible for applications.
In an interview with Ars Technica outlines Doug Leland, responsible for the Microsoft SQL Server software, Microsoft plan with SQL Server 2012, Azure, and the links with the Hadoop project. The software giant would be working on an odbc driver that can work with the Hive, the query engine Hadoop. A preview version by the end of this year, with Hadoop in combination with Windows Server can be used.
Microsoft also offers the SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop has been officially released. This is compatible with SQL Server 2008 and makes it possible to transfer files and importing tables via the Distributed File System of Hadoop.
Through the link with the Hadoop, an open-source software project of the Apache Foundation for distributed computing, Microsoft wants companies to large volumes of unstructured data to process, for example for analysis purposes. In the long term, Microsoft wants to also are Azure-cloud-based with the Hadoop platform to work together.