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Many Hadoop users rethinking their The Databricks Lakehouse Platform

data strategy for the future are integrates all your data, analytics,
constrained by their current Hadoop and GenAI workloads on a
platforms' cost, complexity, and cloud-native platform.
viability.
It blends the best aspects of data
On-premises Hadoop lakes and data warehouses; it
platforms-having not achieved delivers the data control and speed
business value-suffer from a lack of usually seen in data warehouses with
data science capabilities, high the low expense and adaptability of
operational costs, inflexibility, and object stores that data lakes provide.
poor performance.

As a result, enterprises are looking to

migrate their existing Hadoop
platforms to cloud data platforms.

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How Hadoop Fails to Meet Modern Business Demands

Hadoop undeniably transformed data storage with its Distributed File System (HDFS), but on the flip side, it cannot meet the evolving
demands of expanding businesses. Some of the challenges that organizations face with Hadoop include:

Increasing Scalability Costs: Expanding Hadoop

can be expensive as data volumes increase due
to the increase in hardware & operational costs.

Skill Availability: Difficult to find professionals Administrative Overhead: Setting up,

with all the skills that are required to configuring, managing & maintaining
effectively manage the Hadoop ecosystem Hadoop clusters & systems requires
and build a modern analytical platform considerable IT effort.

Governance Challenges: The lack of Complex Data Processing: Using different

efficient management of data tools for Hadoop creates complexity, brings
governance policies, security & access forth integration challenges & makes the
control across isolated pools can lead to processes sluggish.
chaos & legal and compliance issues.

Lack of Analytical Integration: Hadoop Performance Issues: Ensuring optimal

has trouble integrating smoothly with performance with Hadoop can be difficult,
modern analytics platforms. significantly affecting operations with
dynamic workloads.

Data Redundancy & Silos: Hadoop often

results in duplicate data storage & isolated
data pools, making analytics harder.
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Needless to say, Databricks Data Intelligence Platform (DIP) provides a unified, scalable, well-performing, and well-managed platform that
enables data processing in real-time, batch, and metadata-driven modes, along with meeting all GenAI and AI-ML-based advanced
workloads. It overcomes the challenges of Hadoop efficiently with features such as:

Unified Governance Unified Services Unified Workspace

Unity Catalog is open-sourced At the 2024 Data+AI Summit, Enables productivity by allowing
(announced in Databricks Data+AI Databricks unveiled LakeFlow, a unified data engineers, analysts, and
Summit in June 2024). solution for data ingestion scientists to collaborate in
transformation & orchestration. real-time in one place with
Provides AI governance, discovery,
interactive notebooks.
access control, data sharing, auditing Introduced an AI-powered AI/BI system
and monitoring capabilities, with featuring an AI/BI Dashboard & Genie, Integrated workspace helps
open-source API bringing a conversational interface that renders manage resources optimally,
interoperability across enterprise data. traditional semantic model data reducing operational expenses
extracts obsolete. while promoting innovation.
Unity Catalog provides multi-format,
multi-engine (compute) and Together with Mosaic AI, these services
multi-modal support. complete the end-to-end stack.

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Lakehouse Architecture AI-Powered Insights Integration with Modern Cloud

Ecosystem
Combines the best elements of data The integration of advanced AI
lakes & warehouses, minimizing models directly within the Databricks Seamless compatibility with Azure,
data redundancy & improving SQL ecosystem is empowering enterprises AWS, and GCP services enhances
querying capabilities with Delta Lake to derive insights from their data. functionality and user experience.
SQL endpoint.
From predictive analytics to
This architecture simplifies data automated decision-making, the
management, accelerates analytics possibilities are endless.
& AI workflows.

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Key Comparison Points: Hadoop vs. Azure Databricks

Data Storage Data Processing Integration Tools

Hadoop: Uses HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Hadoop: Relies on tools like Apache Pig, Hadoop: Uses older tools like Sqoop and
File System) for storing data typically Hive, and Spark on Hadoop using YARN for Flume for relational and log data
on-premises or through cloud distribution data processing and query. integration.
such as CDH (Cloudera) & HDP
(Hortonworks) HBase as NoSQL database. Azure Databricks: Uses its workspace and Azure Databricks: Integrates with modern
Spark engine on Delta Lake for ACID tools like Azure Data Factory, Autoloader,
Azure Databricks: It uses Delta Lake on transactions, Notebooks (with multiple and partner integration tools like
Azure Data Lake Storage, which is a programming language support like Informatica and Fivetran for smoother
cloud-native with high scalability and is Python, Scala, SQL, R), Spark SQL and data ingestion and integration.
integrated with Azure and Databricks Databricks SQL endpoint, which simplifies
services. processing and querying.

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Security Analytics Real-time Processing

Hadoop: Uses Kerberos, Ranger/Sentry. Hadoop: Limited analytics capabilities Hadoop: Uses Apache Storm, Flink, Kafka.
Manual setup is needed for permissions, because it depends on tool compatibility. Requires complex setup, management,
which can be complex. infrastructure and tuning.
Azure Databricks: Provides extensive
Azure Databricks: Offers modern analytics features, supported by Azure Azure Databricks: Uses Azure Event Hub
cloud-native integrated controls through Synapse and Machine Learning and along with Databricks Platform for highly
Azure IAM, AAD enhancing security with Power BI for advanced visualization. optimized near real-time processing
less effort. using structured streaming including
Delta Live Tables and Autoloader.

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Why Migrate to Databricks on Azure Cloud?

Azure Databricks is a powerful Spark engine that integrates natively with Azure. This integration makes workflows more accessible and faster
than many other options, and it is ideal for businesses that want to use GenAI, advanced analytics, and AI-ML workloads:

Unified Data Intelligence Platform High-Performance Processing Increased productivity, Enhanced Security
A unified platform comprising joint stacks Superior data processing capabilities with and Collaboration
from Microsoft & Databricks for Data Science, Databricks’ highly optimized Spark engine on Fully integrated with Azure security &
AI, Data Warehouse, BI, Orchestration & ETL, & Azure PaaS that processes big data workloads development framework & services, enhancing
Streaming on Lakehouse data storage. faster than the Hadoop environment. safety & teamwork across departments.

Reduce operational cost Unlocking advanced GenAI capabilities

Streamline your IT budget by minimizing Leverage cutting-edge GenAI, AI/ML & BI visualization
infrastructure expenditure & maintenance expenses tools from both Microsoft & Databricks stacks to
with Azure & Databricks’ pay-as-you-go pricing. transform data into actionable insights.

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What are the critical points Hadoop Data: Actual data

migration (HDFS files, Hive tables).
of consideration for
migration? Hadoop Management: Tools and
processes for data access security,
If you are moving from Hadoop to
PII data classification, data
Databricks, have these six key areas in
governance, monitoring & logging
perspective:
Third-party & custom tools and
Migration Scope: Decide what has
services: (Apache NiFi, Apache
01 to be migrated-data models,
Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Atlas,
processing functions & interfaces
APIs, SDKs, etc.)

Hadoop Metadata: Data models Automation: Use automation tools

(files, Hive tables, HBase model), 02 to make migration faster & safer.

Data processing functions Automation in large environments

(Sqoop, Flume, MapReduce jobs, saves cost and time & reduces risk.
Hive queries, PIG, Spark code) &
workflows (Oozie, others) Evaluate automation for code
assessment, migration, validation,
Interface apps (Power BI, and reconciliation.
Tableau); ML models (Spark MLlib,
custom models, others) Evaluate automation feasibility
during MVP.

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01

Planning: Know the current Business Data Knowledge: Train

03 Hadoop setup to avoid potential 04 your migration team on business
problems during migration data details to reduce reliance on
SMEs.
Understand the Hadoop
environment (object inventory, Conducting 101 sessions for the
code complexity, dependencies, migration team on business data
business priority). domain knowledge to help reduce
SME dependency and speed up
Identify risks and mitigation plans data validation.
early in the migration program.
Domain data expertise not only
Identify and plan for use cases helps in the detection & resolution
leveraging Databricks of data quality issues, it also helps
advantages, including Spark in interpreting data
engine performance, unified transformation logic embedded
workspace & Azure integration. in data processing units for code
migration.

Resource allocation for business

priorities and query optimization
become more effective with the
domain knowledge.

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Change Adoption: Teach Consult Network and Security

05 business and IT teams about the teams about data migration
new platform to handle changes methods and options to avoid
well. overloading the network with high
volume and throughput, affecting
Conduct workshops on platform other business applications.
changes (security, data access).

Raise platform usage awareness Microsoft CAF: Follow the

to prevent resource wastage and 06 Microsoft Cloud Adoption
high cloud costs in all Framework (CAF) for Azure for
workspaces, environments, and templated best practices and
sandboxes. tools.

Network & Security Teams: Ensure Utilize CAF to assess the current
compliance and data security state of the Hadoop environment.
are addressed before migration
begins. Evaluate the organization’s
readiness by identifying gaps and
Plan data compliance & security areas of improvement.
as per organization standards
and compliance requirements Prioritize workload based on
beforehand to prevent issues at a business impact and technical
later stage. complexity.

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