Microsoft Extends Data Reach Across Hybrid Clouds

Grazed from ProgrammableWeb.  Author: Michael Vizard.

Microsoft has moved to make database services running on the Microsoft Azure cloud more accessible by enhancing the level of support it provides Java and PHP developers, while also making available a data management gateway based on an implementation of OData that they created using RESTful APIs.

In addition to providing support for Node.js, Python, .NET and JavaScript for the Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft is rolling out a new Java SDK. The company has also updated its Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP and Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server to make it easier to write applications that span SQL Server databases running on premises and the Azure SQL Database running in the cloud…

Tiffany Wissner, senior director for data platform marketing at Microsoft, says Microsoft Azure now supports the latest versions of both Java and PHP and that the company is also previewing an implementation of the Azure SQL database that it says provides near-complete SQL Server engine compatibility. Microsoft claims that internal tests using over 600 million rows of data show query performance improvements of up to a factor of five. In addition, Microsoft says that when applying in-memory column store using the new engine, performance improvements can be as much as 100x…

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