In addition to HDInsight being cloudera, it's also basically a legacy product. Azure technical solutions people are now all pushing databricks. And personally,

In addition to HDInsight being cloudera, it's also basically a legacy product. Azure technical solutions people are now all pushing databricks. And personally, when designing a new project, I don't see why you would use HDInsight instead of a bespoke distributed vm architecture with one (azure storage) or two-tier storage (one local to the vm, one in Azure storage) unless you really need to use some hadoop jar you found lying around.