Data Platform Tips 62 - Comparing Azure HDInsight cluster Storage options

When you plan to provision Storage for HDInsight clusters you have an option to select from 3 storage options.

a) Azure Storage
b) Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
c) Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1

	Account type	Namespace Type	Supported services	Supported performance tiers	Supported access tiers	HDInsight Version	Cluster type
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2	General-purpose V2	Hierarchical (filesystem)	Blob	Standard	Hot, Cool, Archive	3.6+	All
Azure Storage	General-purpose V2	Object	Blob	Standard	Hot, Cool, Archive	3.6+	All
Azure Storage	General-purpose V1	Object	Blob	Standard	N/A	All	All
Azure Storage	Blob Storage**	Object	Block Blob	Standard	Hot, Cool, Archive	All	All
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1	N/A	Hierarchical (filesystem)	N/A	N/A	N/A	3.6 Only	All except HBase