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HDInsight Gets an Upgrade and Minor Updates
HDInsight has now reached version 3.1.
Rod Trent
June 27, 2014
1 Min Read
Updated on June 24, HDInsight received some minor improvements. For those previewing the service, here is what you can expect to see:
HDInsight 3.1 (HDP 2.1) is now generally available and is the default version for new clusters.
HBase clusters, which are available in preview, can now be created in just 3 clicks from Azure Management Portal.
Apache Mahout is now pre-installed on HDInsight 3.1 clusters.
Hive queries can use Tez in HDInsight 3.1 to gain substantial performance improvements.
HDInsight is Microsoft's Azure-based Apache Hadoop service that provides for storing large amounts of unstructured data from a multitude of diverse resources that can be processed and analyzed in minutes.
You can find out more about the service here and sign up for a free trial: Microsoft Azure HDInsight
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