Summary

This chapter has given an overview on the ecosystem of the new R Service and the family of R Engine products offered by Microsoft.

When thinking about R and SQL Server, one must keep in mind what the needs in the enterprise will be and how the infrastructure will be prepared in order to leverage the maximum performance from powerful RevoScaleR packages.

In the next chapter, we will see how to use these ScaleR computational functions to deliver better performance results, and how to set up your ecosystem.