Licensing Reference
Licensing reference materials are continuously updated, highly-detailed entries covering Microsoft licensing terms, procedures, practices and timelines.
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Product reference materials are clear, concise definitions and descriptions of Microsoft's ever-growing catalog of products and services.
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HDInsight Roadmap
Azure HDInsight is a Microsoft cloud database service based on Apache’s Hadoop open-source software framework,... more
Database Offerings 2024: Overview and Roadmap
Updated: August 12, 2024
Microsoft offers many database products and services, and customers need to narrow the broad field...more
Database Offerings 2024: Understanding Data Lake Options
Updated: July 24, 2024
Microsoft’s data lake offerings provide scalable hosting options that address large-scale, global demands for storage...more
HDInsight 2020—Modified Distributions, Management Tools
Updated: November 27, 2023
HDInsight updates Hadoop and Spark cluster types with Microsoft-modified distributions, providing greater integration with Azure...more
HDInsight Previews AKS Deployment and New Frameworks
Updated: November 13, 2023
HDInsight is receiving more investment with new functionality and frameworks to address industry changes in...more
Microsoft’s Database Management Landscape 2020
Updated: February 17, 2021
Microsoft offers on-premises and hosted database offerings that support a variety of data types. They...more
HDInsight 4.0 Updates Hadoop, Enterprise Features
Updated: July 24, 2020
Azure HDInsight 4.0 includes the latest versions of Hadoop components, performance improvements, and enterprise-level management...more
Azure HDInsight Update and Roadmap 2018
Updated: July 23, 2020
HDInsight is an Azure service based on Apache’s Hadoop software framework, a popular solution for...more
HDInsight Delivers Big Data Storage and Analysis
Updated: July 15, 2020
Azure HDInsight is Microsoft’s hosted Hadoop service based on Apache’s Hadoop software framework, a popular...more
Azure HDInsight Expands Analytics with R, Kafka
Updated: July 15, 2020
Azure HDInsight now has support for R Server machine learning capabilities and provides a preview...more
Database, Analytics, and AI/ML Roadmap
