Hi all, new to Power BI here and looking to connect it to an Azure cloud-based Hortonworks Hadoop Data Lake. This would be via DirectQuery, without storing data outside the Hadoop cluster, due to regulatory considerations. There would also need to be some sort of a reporting server as well to create the reports for end users to consume.
My main questions:
1. Is DirectQuery only possible against Spark and not Hive in a standard Hortonworks distro?
2. From the literature, the Reporting Server is an on-premise reporting machine. Is there a cloud equivalent as I do not want to expand my on-prem infrastructure - is this what Power BI Service is?
3. What changes are happening in Q1 2018 in terms of hosting Power BI Premium workspaces on different O365 tenants? Our corporate tenant is in a different global region, and it would be ideal if we could host within our region, rather than have to have network hits of such distance.
