After Oracle, Microsoft Goes After Big Data
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced that it will be adding support for the Hadoop framework to the upcoming versions of SQL Server 2012 and Azure, Microsoft’s cloud service, at the SQL Pass 2011 conference. [1] Hadoop is a very popular framework which supports data intensive distributed applications which can be used to process, analyze and store big data and unstructured data. It is now used by many web companies and enterprises which need to store and process large sets of unstructured data, which cannot be handled by traditional relational database systems. Windows Server and SQL Server is the third most valuable division of Microsoft. It accounts for 13.5% of Microsoft’s $28 Trefis price estimate, which is almost equal to its current market price. Microsoft competes primarily with Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) in the database server market. Oracle announced its foray into big data earlier this month. Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform compete with the market leader, Amazon‘s (NASDAQ:AMZN) cloud platform.
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Oracle recently announced its own big data appliance, which comes with connectors for Hadoop, so that customers can load data directly into Oracle’s database. Oracle is trying to position its database offering as the only solution one needs to process any type of data.
Microsoft, which competes with Oracle in the database market with its SQL Server offering, is set to launch SQL Server 2012 next year. It will be offering support for Hadoop with both SQL Server 2012, as well as its cloud platform, Azure.
Microsoft will be partnering with HortonWorks for the integration, which is one of the largest contributors to the Hadoop project. Microsoft recently announced Hadoop connectors for its existing SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse offerings.
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