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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by jd_hicks on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @05:55PM (#9036249)
Azure has multiple database-as-a-service offerings including SQL (azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database/), DocumentDB (azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/documentdb/), and Redis Cache (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cache/).
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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by bduerst on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @06:14PM (#9036335)
Those aren't OLAP replacements though, right? You would still need to manually build an OLAP db from the lower level to report on them. Maybe I'm wrong since I haven't used Azure...
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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by rjbwork on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @09:38PM (#9037053)
You're right, Azure SQL is very limited in terms of being quite different from non-hosted SQL offerings. You can't just throw OLAP on top.
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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by bduerst on Thursday February 12, 2015 @12:44PM (#9040065)
Azure is a PAAS, right? OLAP should be one of the native offerings from Microsoft.

Google has BigQuery and AWS has Redshift.

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Re:Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley by rjbwork on Friday February 13, 2015 @06:19PM (#9047840)
Yes they should. It's literally the only big thing lacking IMO at the moment...hell they even have a fully automated machine learning pipeline offering that can auto-generate APIs from trained models...But no OLAP :-/
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