Power BI for Big Data

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have question ,Can i use Power BI for Big Data ? if Yes Please answer how can i use ?

Thanks,

Bhakti

[v-haibl-msft]

@Anonymous

You can explore your data wherever it is—in the cloud or on-premises—including big data sources such as Hadoop and Spark. With connections to hundreds of sources and constantly growing, Power BI Desktop lets you draw deep insights for a broad range of scenarios.

Best Regards,
Herbert

[proletariat99]

That's a very marketing-sounding answer.  I also need to know how PowerBI works at scale.  Does it do any distributed compute of visualization routines or tie in to Kafka or anything, or does it basically just work like Tableau where you access HDFS / Hive data remotely via ODBC and downloads to a single PowerBI server for speedy access (which breaks down at larger sizes of data)?

[proletariat99]

That's a very marketing-sounding answer.  I also need to know how PowerBI works at scale.  Does it do any distributed compute of visualization routines or tie in to Kafka or anything, or does it basically just work like Tableau where you access HDFS / Hive data remotely via ODBC and downloads to a single PowerBI server for speedy access (which breaks down at larger sizes of data)?