Windows Azure HDInsight Service provides a fully-managed Apache Hadoop service in the cloud. It is elastic, simple to use, and secure. It is built on Apache Hadoop Distribution including Pig, Hive, Oozie, and other popular Hadoop components. Users can leverage the scalability and geo-redundancy of Azure storage. It also supports various programming languages and tools including .NET, JavaScript, Hive, Pig, and Mahout.