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Azure Synapse is Microsoft’s limitless analytics service for data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. It helps analyze great volumes of structured and unstructured data. This is done by bringing together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics into a single environment.
What’s Possible with Azure Synapse - Best Features
- Single analytics workspace for data engineers, business analysts, database administrators, and data scientists.
- Supports integration with Power BI, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Data Factory. This enables end-to-end analytics workflows without data movement.
- Helps run complex queries across data lakes, operational systems, and relational databases using a combination of serverless and dedicated resource models.
- Combines SQL, Apache Spark, and pipelines within a single analytics service to facilitate batch processing, interactive querying, and real-time analytics.
- Automated threat detection and always-on encryption with advanced privacy capabilities.
Is Azure Synapse an ETL tool?
Azure Synapse is a cloud-based ETL tool that offers data integration and transformation capabilities through Synapse Pipelines. Azure Synapse is seen as a complete analytics ecosystem. It enables users to transform data, store, explore, and visualize it. All is done within a single platform. So, while it offers ETL capabilities, it does more than regular ETL tools.
Is Azure Synapse a PaaS or SaaS?
Azure Synapse is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Microsoft provides and manages the infrastructure, including the compute, networking, and storage layers. You get built-in management features such as auto-scaling, security, and workload isolation.
Azure Synapse Pricing
Azure Synapse offers a flexible consumption-based pricing model. It is based on the type of workload. Azure Synapse offers pre-purchase plans that provide you with up to 28% savings over pay-as-you-go prices when you pre-purchase Azure Synapse Analytics Commit Units.
