Really? Because I see Microsoft revenue continuing to increase and the partner ecosystem continuing to thrive. I also get to see licensing agreements and I get to see what sales quotas are in the MS data platform.
None of the numbers indicate a shrinking market to me. SQL Server does compete for analytics workloads. Is it a direct competitor to Hadoop? No.
I have clearly stated my bubble up front and I'm trying to keep my claims within that bubble. The question was "what are the use cases?" I answered that. I am now saying that I see a thriving SQL Server business. I'm not saying no one uses Hadoop because more of my projects leverage SQL Server components than Hadoop. You are claiming that SQL Server is only for legacy projects because you are not using it.
