What is Azure Synapse?
It is an analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. It brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.
Azure Synapse is a tool in the Big Data Tools category of a tech stack.
Who uses Azure Synapse?
Companies
11 companies reportedly use Azure Synapse in their tech stacks, including internet-of-things, DevRain, and Driverama.
Developers
86 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Azure Synapse.
Azure Synapse Integrations
dbt, StreamSets, Hackolade, Row Zero, and Skyvia are some of the popular tools that integrate with Azure Synapse. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Azure Synapse.
Pros of Azure Synapse
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Azure Synapse's Features
- Complete T-SQL based analytics – Generally Available
- Deeply integrated Apache Spark
- Hybrid data integration
- Unified user experience
Azure Synapse Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Azure Synapse?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
