Is Azure Synapse dead?

Is Microsoft Fabric the Way to go?

Christianlauer
CodeX

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Azure Synapse is the Data Warehouse solution from Microsoft in the Azure cloud — however, it has had internal competition from Databricks for some time, and since last year also from Microsoft Fabrics.

Microsoft Synapse and Databricks are well-known solutions for building up a Data Warehouse or Data Lakehouse, Microsoft offers both solutions in their Azure Cloud. Since last year Microsoft presented Fabrics which competes with both but also is integrated with them. While Databricks is a more stand alone solution I want more to focus on the question is Fabric the feature of Synapse in this article.

Users and companies may now ask themselves the what service to choose. With the introduction of Microsoft Fabric, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the difference between Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric. Synapse is Microsoft’s cloud tool for processing data. It has been around for several years and is therefore well-tested. Years of constant improvement to the product have resulted in countless functions and the…

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