SQL Server and PolyBase with Hadoop on Windows In SQL Server Big Data Clusters in Azure I demonstrated setting up a sample SQL Server Big Data Cluster in Azure using the Azure Kubernetes Service.

Note PolyBase supports Hadoop encryption zones starting with SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU7 and SQL Server 2017 CU3. If you are using PolyBase scale-out groups, all compute nodes must also be on a build that ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

PolyBase supports the latest versions of Hortonworks and Cloudera distributions with SQL Server 2016. PolyBase will also support newer Hadoop versions within 90 days of their general availability. In ...

Note, PolyBase supports Hadoop encryption zones starting with SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU7 and SQL Server 2017 CU3. This functionality is not available in Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure SQL Database, or ...

With the recently released SQL Server 2016, you can now use SQL queries against Hadoop and Azure blob storage. Not only do you no longer need to write map/reduce operations, you can also join ...

PolyBase will be released in the first half of 2013, as part of the next version of SQL Server PDW and will integrate data in Hadoop's Distributed File System (HDFS) with the relational database ...