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, 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 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 ...