Microsoft Distribution of Apache Hadoop comes with Hive Support along with an Interactive Hive shell where users can run their Hive queries immediately without adding specific configuration. The Apache distribution running on Windows Azure has built in...

In Windows Azure VM diagnostics is enabled by default so basic log can be collected and transferred to Azure Storage on demand. With Windows Azure SDK 1.6, the default application setting do two things: 1. It enable the diagnostics and transfer diagnostics...

When you have lots of instances running on Windows Azure, you may need to investigate issues on a specific instance however there is not direct way, you can offline specific instance from your total instances. To investigate a specific instance your first...

[ As of now this functionality is not available with Hadoop on Windows Azure. These instruction are not applicable as of now and when things will change i will add more info here.. Thanks for your support ] Apache Hadoop distribution (currently...

In this example I will create a node.js based blob application which will storage all the blog articles on Azure Storage. When application starts it reads blog article from Windows Azure table storage and then render it using EJS viewer. This sample is...

My recent development work with Windows Azure Node.js SDK 0.5.2 helped me to found two issues. Until next SDK update is available please use the given workaround to solve your problem. Issues 1: Exception while testing your node.js application in...

Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure is integrated with a web-based interactive JavaScript console, which allows you to perform Perform HDFS operations, including uploading/reading files to/from the HDFS Run MapReduce programs from .js scripts or JAR...

Microsoft distribution of Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure, let you run JavaScript Map/Reduce jobs directly from web based Interactive JavaScript Console. To start with lets write a JavaScript code for Map/Reduce wordcount jobs as below: FileName...

SQL Azure team announced today about the release of a new experimental cloud service, " SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment ”. This tool is a created by SQL Azure Labs and if you are considering moving your SQL Server databases to SQL Azure, you...

Once your provide following information to setup your Hadoop cluster in Azure: Cluster DNS Name Type of Cluster Small – 4 Nodes – 2TB diskspace Medium – 8 Nodes – 4 TB diskspace Large – 16 nodes –...

Microsoft distribution to Apache Hadoop comes by direct connectivity to cloud storage i.e. Windows Azure Blob storage or Amazon S3. Here we will learn how to connect your Windows Azure Storage directly from your Hadoop Cluster. As you know Windows...

Microsoft distribution to Apache Hadoop comes by direct connectivity to cloud storage i.e. Windows Azure Blob storage or Amazon S3. Here we will learn how to connect your Windows Azure Storage directly from your Hadoop Cluster. To learn how to connect...

In Hadoop cluster, namenode communicate with all the other nodes. Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure have the following XML file which includes all the primary settings for Hadoop: C:\Apps\Dist\conf\HDFS-SITE.XML <?xml version="1.0...

If you want to access Windows Azure Blob Storage same as a drive on your development machine you sure can do it. Gladinet provide the application to mount Windows Azure Blob Storage directly as a Network Drive so you can access blob directly from your...

Microsoft Distribution of Apache Hadoop comes with Pig Support along with an Interactive JavaScript shell where users can run their Pig queries immediately without adding specific configuration. The Apache distribution running on Windows Azure has built...

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After you created your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure, you can remote into it to start the Map/Reduce administration. Most of the processing log & HDFS data is already available over port 50030 and 50070 however, you can run bunch of standard Hadoop...

In this article we will learn how to configure the same Hadoop cluster to do some customization. To learn about creating your own Hadoop cluster on Windows Azure by using your own Windows Azure Subscription account – Click here To add more...

I was recently informed about a great “Ruby on Rails” companion package to run your Ruby on Rails application on Windows Azure. With this package you can: Run multiple instance of Ruby Application on Windows Azure Deploy your application...

By default the application drive in Windows Azure VM has maximum size limitation of 1GB with any kind of VM type (small, extra-large). So if you have a large or extra-large VM, and running multiple sites configured in your Web Role, you might want to...

After you log into your Hadoop Portal and configured your cluster, you can select “Manage Data” tile as below: On the next screen you can select: “Set up ASV” to set your Windows Azure Blob Storage as data source...

Time to time, I get involved with our Windows Azure partners to discussion IP address configuration in Windows Azure Virtual Machine so I decided to write this article to point out most of the configuration: When you have your application running...

When you run Map/Reduce job in Hadoop cluster on Windows Azure you will get an aggregated progress and log directly on portal, so you can see what is happening with your job. This log is different the what see when you do check individual job status in...

One of my teammate William Bellamy has written a great article “ Troubleshooting Best Practices for Developing Windows Azure Applications ” which is available for everyone to consume. Summary: The number one priority of Microsoft...

To get your Amazon S3 account setup with Apache Hadoop cluster on Windows Azure you just need you AWS security credentials which pretty much look like as below: After you completed creating Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure, you can log into your...