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ETL with Azure Cookbook

You're reading from   ETL with Azure Cookbook Practical recipes for building modern ETL solutions to load and transform data from any source

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800203310
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christian Cote Christian Cote
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Matija Lah Matija Lah
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Azure and SSIS 2019 2. Chapter 2: Introducing ETL FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Creating and Using SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters 4. Chapter 4: Azure Data Integration 5. Chapter 5: Extending SSIS with Custom Tasks and Transformations 6. Chapter 6: Azure Data Factory 7. Chapter 7: Azure Databricks 8. Chapter 8: SSIS Migration Strategies 9. Chapter 9: Profiling data in Azure 10. Chapter 10: Manage SSIS and Azure Data Factory with Biml 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating an on-demand Azure HDInsight cluster

So far, we have installed the Azure Feature Pack in SSIS and created a storage account. It is now time to create a compute service in Azure so that we can manipulate some data.

An HDInsight cluster is what we call a compute resource in Azure. It is essentially a Hortonworks (now Cloudera) service available in Azure. It is composed of Linux virtual machines that have Apache Hadoop or Spark installed on them. Hadoop has been around for more than a decade now and it was the first big data compute resource available. Hadoop writes (stages) the data to disk at almost all the stages of a program's execution. Spark is a newer technology. Instead of staging data on disks, it uses memory while a program executes. It's therefore much faster than Hadoop.

We will use Hadoop clusters in this chapter because SSIS uses this type of cluster. HDInsight clusters can be very expensive if we create them manually and leave them running continuously...

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