Building a Data Lakehouse with Azure Synapse
How to build a modern Data Platform in the Microsoft Cloud
A Data Lakehouse is a modern architecture that combines Data Lake and Data Warehouse. In the Azure Cloud there are several possibilities to build such a Data Lakehouse — one of them is the use of Azure Synapse.
What is Azure Synapse?
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is the successor to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. With the new service, Microsoft wants to expand its modern Data Warehouse and Big Data strategy and enables companies to analyze their data more effectively and faster. To dive deeper into this topic and what the strenghts of Azure Synpse are you can use this article:
What is a Data Lakehouse (Recap)?
Let’s briefly explain what a Data Warehouse is, for those who are not yet familiar with the subject. A Data Lakehouse is not just about integrating a Data Lake with a Data Warehouse, but rather integrating a Data Lake, a Data Warehouse, and purpose-built storage to…