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Azure SQL Database vs Hadoop: What are the differences?
Azure SQL Database: Managed, intelligent SQL in the cloud. It is the intelligent, scalable, cloud database service that provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility and up to a 212% return on investment. It is a database service that can quickly and efficiently scale to meet demand, is automatically highly available, and supports a variety of third party software; Hadoop: Open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.
Azure SQL Database and Hadoop can be categorized as "Databases" tools.
Hadoop is an open source tool with 9.4K GitHub stars and 5.85K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hadoop's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Hadoop has a broader approval, being mentioned in 309 company stacks & 623 developers stacks; compared to Azure SQL Database, which is listed in 21 company stacks and 20 developer stacks.
Pros of Azure SQL Database
- Managed6
- Secure4
- Scalable3
Pros of Hadoop
- Great ecosystem39
- One stack to rule them all11
- Great load balancer4
- Amazon aws1
- Java syntax1