Ignite 2019: Microsoft has revved its Azure SQL Data Warehouse, re-branding it Synapse Analytics, and integrating Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory, with a unified Web ...

Azure Synapse, formerly the Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is built on a strong SQL foundation and seeks to be a unified data analytics platform for big data systems and data warehouses.

That includes products like SQL Server, the open source programming interface Apache Spark, A z ure Data Factory and Azure Data S tudio, as well as n otebook interfaces preferred by many data ...

Like SQL Data Warehouse, it aims to bridge the gap between data warehouses and data lakes, which are often completely separate. Synapse […] TechCrunch Desktop Logo TechCrunch Mobile Logo ...

Azure Synapse Analytics also offers a multi-level hierarchical cache within the SQL engine that automatically moves data between performance tiers (which includes disk storage and NVMe SSD caching ...

Formerly known as "Azure SQL Data Warehouse," Azure Synapse Analytics was redesigned to bolster the number of queries that could be run, while also adding a connection to Apache Spark.

Azure Synapse Overview. Azure Synapse, previously known as Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, integrates big data and data warehousing into a single platform.. Its architecture is built on a ...

Azure Synapse can query both relational and non-relational data at “petabyte-scale,” directed by lines of SQL. Since its announcement, Microsoft says the number of Azure customers running ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets less press than its online transaction processing brethren, Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB. However, it is a powerful cloud engine for processing large ...

Last year, at its Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Azure Synapse Analytics, an analytics service that combines analytics and data warehousing to create what the company calls “the next ...