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Azure HDInsight

byMicrosoft
in
3.9
Market Presence: Cloud Database Management Systems, Hadoop Distributions

Overview

Product Information on Azure HDInsight

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Azure HDInsight?

Azure HDInsight is a cloud-based software designed to process, analyze, and manage large volumes of data using open-source frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and Apache Hive. The software provides scalable and customizable clusters for big data analytics, enabling organizations to handle data storage, processing, and reporting. Azure HDInsight supports data integration from various sources, facilitates batch, interactive, and streaming analytics, and offers built-in monitoring and security capabilities. The software addresses business challenges associated with distributed data processing, helping users derive insights from large datasets for applications such as business intelligence, data science, and machine learning workloads.

Azure HDInsight Pricing

Azure HDInsight software follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the type of cluster, number of nodes, and region. Charges are incurred for virtual machines, storage, and networking resources used during operation. Additional costs apply depending on specific configurations, such as software versions and premium features. Pricing is subject to usage and does not require upfront commitments.

Overall experience with Azure HDInsight

PROJECT LEAD
1B - 3B USD, Services (non-Government)
FAVORABLE

“A Quick and Easy Tool”

4.0
Mar 25, 2023
HDInsight is a tool that you would use for quick insights. Since it is based on Big Data, it can take huge data lakes as inputs
IT Administrator
500M - 1B USD, Construction
CRITICAL

“HDInsight is powerful, but requires a lot of administration”

3.0
Nov 8, 2021
Fine product if it works. We have a lot of connection issues, the authentication required is very complex and we need to manage a lot of items to keep everything running (like VM's and earlier mentioned authentication issues).

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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Azure HDInsight Likes & Dislikes

Like

I like how fast it is, it just quickly puts out numbers even when the data to be analyzed is super large

Like

The possibilities you get with large amounts of data.

Like

Live changes showing, the product is very easy to use and manageble. The system is very high speed and offered a great connection.

Dislike

It doesn't support some data formats as inputs, like XML.

Dislike

The complex authentication and extra VM administration.

Dislike

when you have large volumes of data, the performance slows and becomes sticky. error messages are often shown.

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Azure HDInsight Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 24 ratings and reviews for Cloud Database Management Systems market. View all 29 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

3.9

(24 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
29%
4 Star
58%
3 Star
13%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.2

Planning & Transition

4.0

Delivery & Execution

3.5

Integration & Deployment

4.2

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • PROJECT LEAD
    1B-10B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    A Quick and Easy Tool

    4.0
    Mar 25, 2023
    HDInsight is a tool that you would use for quick insights. Since it is based on Big Data, it can take huge data lakes as inputs
  • Material Planner
    1B-10B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Fantastic system for marketing and advertising

    4.0
    Feb 7, 2022
    We used this item to get store a large amount of data and get the information from it, it worked wonders for us!
  • IT Administrator
    50M-1B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    HDInsight is powerful, but requires a lot of administration

    3.0
    Nov 8, 2021
    Fine product if it works. We have a lot of connection issues, the authentication required is very complex and we need to manage a lot of items to keep everything running (like VM's and earlier mentioned authentication issues).
  • Lead Engineer
    10B+ USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    Managing and processing data by Azure HDInsight efficiently and securely

    5.0
    Feb 19, 2021
    Azure HDInsight is used for managing data processing at our organization. Being a big company managing the data of thousands of users and customers is always a challenge. We can now access the past data and present data without being dependent on a hard drive or on some other PC.
  • Senior IT Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    While Implementation was simple and rapid, the user interactive feature are limited.

    5.0
    Sep 16, 2018
    Over the last twelve months our engagement level with Microsoft has been high and effective. They are bringing people to the engagement who are skilled and have direct connections with the engineering team. They have kept us up to date with the product features and planned releases.
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