Customers of Microsoft Azure and Informatica can deploy Informatica Big Data Management in the Azure cloud platform to take advantage of Informatica's integration with the Azure cloud platform and the Azure HDInsight cluster.
The following image shows the integration of Big Data Management with the Azure cloud platform and the HDInsight cluster:
The Informatica domain may be deployed on the cloud platform or on-premises. The domain uses Azure SQL databases for the Domain repository, the Model repository, the monitoring Model repository, and the Hive metadata repository. When a mapping, application or workflow is deployed to the Data Integration Service, it can run on the HDInsight cluster.
You can tune Big Data Management in the following areas:
Hardware
Hadoop cluster parameters
Domain parameters and application services in the domain