Microsoft's Hadoop-friendly Azure Data Lake will be generally available in weeks

#Microsoft is only a few weeks away from making its cloud-based big data analytics #Azure #DataLake generally available. Azure Data Lake, described by Microsoft as a "hyperscale repository for big data analytic workloads in the cloud", has three main components, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Data Lake Store and U-SQL. Data is held in the #Hadoop Distributed File System-compatible Azure Data Lake Store and processed using Azure Data Lake Analytics, an #Apache #YARN -based service that lets users query data using U-SQL, which combines aspects of C# and SQL and is designed to be relatively easy to use.

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