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| Azure Service | Description | Base Storage Layer | Other Required Azure Services | ||||
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| HDI | All Microsoft Azure deployments integrate with an HDI cluster, which can be pre-existing or created at the time of deployment. | Base storage layer can be HDFS (for ADLS) or WASB. | WASB | Windows Azure Storage Blobs (WASB) extends HDFS to enable access to storage blobs that have not been deployed into the HDI cluster. See Enable WASB Access. | Base Storage Layer = WASB | HDI cluster WASB Key Vault | |
| ADLS | Active Data Lake Store (ADLS) provides a highly scalable file-based storage system within HDI cluster. See Enable ADLS Access. | Base Storage Layer = HDFS | HDI cluster ADLS Key Vault |
The following database connections are optional.
| Database Name | Description |
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| Hive | You can read from and write to Hive, a data warehouse built on top of HDI.
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| SQL DW | You can write from and write to SQL DatawarehouseData Warehouse, a scalable datawarehouse data warehouse solution for Azure.
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| SQL DB | A You can read from SQL DB, a SQL Server variant for Azure.
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