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RSS feedMay 2019
HBase accelerated writes in Azure HDInsight is now in preview
HBase accelerated writes significantly improves the value proposition for low-latency, high- throughput NoSQL workloads.
April 2019
Apache Hadoop 3 on Azure HDInsight 4.0 is now available
New features in Hadoop 3 provide significant improvements to performance, stability, and availability, helping reduce total cost of ownership and accelerating time-to-value.
November 2018
Azure HDInsight is now available in China North 2
Azure HDInsight is now available in China North 2.
October 2018
Apache Spark jobs gain up to nine times speed improvement with HDInsight IO Cache
Achieve up to a nine times performance improvement in the speed of Apache Spark jobs with Azure HDInsight IO Cache, now in preview.
September 2018
Developer tools enhancements for Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight
We're bringing several exciting new enhancements to developer tools for Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight.
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