Big Data - Windows Azure .NET Scenarios

Big Data Scenarios

Windows Azure supports a variety of structured and unstructured data storage options, along with tools to help you analyze and extract BI from data of any size.

Web site with MongoDB on a virtual machine

Create an ASP.NET MVC web site that connects to a MongoDB instance running on a Windows Azure virtual machine. You will learn how to leverage virtual machines to host unstructured data in MongoDB.

Running Hadoop Jobs on Windows Azure and Analyzing the Data with the Excel Hive Add-In

Shows two ways run MapReduce programs in a cluster and demonstrates how to analyse data imported into the cluster from Excel using Hive-based connectivity.

Analyzing Twitter movie data with Hive

Demo and process Twitter movie data using Hadoop on Windows Azure.

Simple recommendation engine using Apache Mahout

Create a simple recommendation engine using a Mahout item-based algorithm.

Additional Hadoop resources

Explore our complete set of guidance, samples and tutorials for Hadoop on Windows Azure.