Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is a cloud-based analytics service that integrates big data and data warehousing. It provides a unified experience for data ingestion, preparation, management, and serving, enabling users to query data at scale using either serverless or dedicated resources. It combines enterprise data warehousing with big data analytics, supporting both SQL and Apache Spark engines.
Developers should use Azure Synapse Analytics when building large-scale data analytics solutions that require processing and analyzing petabytes of data across structured and unstructured sources. It is ideal for scenarios like real-time analytics, business intelligence reporting, and machine learning workflows, as it reduces the complexity of managing separate data warehousing and big data systems. Its integration with other Azure services like Azure Data Factory and Power BI makes it suitable for end-to-end data pipelines in enterprise environments.