MS Azure Data Platform

  Microsoft’s Azure Data Platform is a group of cloud-based services for organizing and analyzing data. Among these services are:

Azure Data Lake Storage

Microsoft Azure offers a fully managed data lake service called Azure Data Lake Storage. Data can be processed and retrieved using a range of tools and technologies, including HDInsight, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Databricks. Data can be saved in a variety of formats, including both structured and unstructured data. For more sophisticated analytics and data visualization, Data Lake Storage now connects with Azure services like Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Power BI.

Azure Data Factory

Microsoft Azure offers Azure Data Factory, a service for integrating data in the cloud. Users can design, plan, and control data pipelines that transfer and transform data between different sources and destinations. Numerous on-premises and cloud-based data stores, including SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Azure Blob Storage, are supported by Data Factory. The service also supports custom code using Azure Functions and Azure Data Lake Analytics, as well as built-in data flow transformations like data mapping, filtering, and aggregation. The pipelines can also be coupled with Azure services like Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Machine Learning for building utilizing a visual interface.

Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks is a big data analytics service built for data science and data engineering that is quick, simple, and collaborative. Data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts may collaborate with big data in a collaborative, interactive environment thanks to its open-source Apache Spark foundation.

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL and relational database for modern app development. Azure Cosmos DB offers single-digit millisecond response times, automatic and instant scalability, along with guaranteed speed at any scale. It is a globally distributed, multi-model database service designed for handling large amounts of data. As a fully managed service, Azure Cosmos DB takes database administration off your hands with automatic management, updates, and patching. It also handles capacity management with cost-effective serverless and automatic scaling options that respond to application needs to match capacity with demand.

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database is a relational database service offered by Microsoft Azure. It is fully managed service and offers all of SQL Server’s features and functionalities with the additional advantages of being completely managed and scalable in the cloud.

Azure Synapse Analytics

Data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics are all combined into one unrestricted analytics solution called Azure Synapse Analytics. It enables you to analyse data on an integrated workspace. You have the choice to query data at scale utilising serverless or dedicated alternatives, as you see fit. To ingest, investigate, prepare, process, manage, and provide data for urgent BI and machine learning needs, Azure Synapse unifies these realms.

Azure Stream Analytics

Azure Stream Analytics is a completely managed stream processing engine used to analyse and process massive amounts of streaming data at sub-millisecond latencies. Data originating from several input sources, such as applications, devices, sensors, clickstreams, and social media feeds, can be examined for patterns and linkages. These patterns can be used to start workflows and trigger events like alert creation, information feeding into reporting tools, or storing altered data for future use.

Azure Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft that allows users to build, deploy, and manage machine learning models. It can be used for a wide range of applications including image and speech recognition, natural language processing, and predictive analytics. It also allows for a smooth integration with other Azure services such as Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory for data processing and storage.

Azure Power BI

A business intelligence and data visualization tool. It enables you to share insights throughout your organisation and visualise your data, as well as incorporate those insights into your app or website. Together, Azure Analytics and Power BI offer insights at scale, enabling you to establish the data-driven culture necessary to succeed a fast-paced, competitive environment.

Azure Analysis Services

Microsoft’s Azure Analysis Services is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that lets customers build and maintain semantic data models in the cloud. It is based on the xVelocity in-memory analytics engine, which is also used by SQL Server Analysis Services and Microsoft Power BI. Users of Azure Analysis Services can build multidimensional or tabular data models that can be used with business intelligence (BI) tools like Excel, Power BI, and others to analyze data.