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What is Azure Synapse Analytics?

Azure Synapse Analytics is a cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that leverages Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data.

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Azure Synapse Analytics is a cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that leverages Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data.

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Varad V.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Azure Synapse Analytics - Best ETL Tool"
Azure Synapse Analytics had a wonderful UI calles Synapse Studio which makes it extremely easy to use. It is highly scalable which makes it easier ...
Tej P.
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Tej P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Azure Synapse Analytics a complete solution for data"
It provides Deep integration of Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services, and Power BI It has the big data analytical capabilities of spark and ...
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5.0 out of 5
"So far so good"
Azure Synapse has helped me ease my workload

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Apparel & Fashion
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Products used within Microsoft Azure Databases: Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Databases?

The main factror to which I enjoy implementing and using MS Azure Databases is due to the ease of integration within other technologies and the reporting properties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Databases?

There are no areas of dislike. I would like to obtain more available certifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?

MS Azure Databases have given us an insight look of internal processes to which we were taking action blindly in the recent past. Also, the detailed reporting has provided our enterprise a determining advantage when making sound decisions involving important upgrades or changes to our IT infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It is fast and has every feature that a team needs, My team has been using it for the last 2 years, it's easy to use and its customer support is great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Databases?

it's costly and sometimes has some bugs, but it does not have many extensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?

this database is fast and secure, the scalability with this database is really safe and fast, it has every feature that my team need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Synapse Analytics?

Azure Synapse Analytics had a wonderful UI calles Synapse Studio which makes it extremely easy to use. It is highly scalable which makes it easier to find insights of important data. It allows linking resources and working with scripts as well as spark notebooks. It's feature of integrating Spark pools makes data processing and analytics hassle free. It has security that of Azure so there is no compromise on that too. All in all, it is a go to cloud ETL and data analytics tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Synapse Analytics?

There is nothing that I dislike about Sunapse analytics as such. Just an improvement that I would like to see is addition of drag and drop feature in it's UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Synapse Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure synapse analytics solves my day to day needs with work. As a Data Engineer, I have to do lots of extract, transform and load for data that holds a lot of importance. Azure synapse analytics makes this taks easier for me. It's features of integration and linking with other resources makes it a go to option for any analytics or data preocessing task too. Especially, it's integration with spark pools makes it the most prefered choice for data precessing. So, synapse analytics is benefitting me a lot in my day to day routing work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Karan S.
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Products used within Microsoft Azure Databases: Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Database Migration Service
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Databases?

Microsoft have a vide varieties of data bases for the differnt use case and all are good efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Databases?

Some databases of Microsoft like Azure MS SQL database. I'm not able to install SSMS in macbook. They only provided management studio for window user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provide you cloud infrastructure in a very cost effective way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Synapse Analytics?

It provides Deep integration of Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services, and Power BI

It has the big data analytical capabilities of spark and data integration to move data between both.

It is the overcome of Azure Data factory tool, it provides the independent storage and compute cluster.

It provides the SQL pools which are Dedicated SQL pools and Serverless SQL pools we can work according to data.

It provides Hybrid data integration by using this we can connect with on-prem SQL and cloud-based storage. It provides a complete solution.

It offers cloud data warehousing, dashboarding, and machine learning analytics in single workspace which makes Synapse more powerful than ADF.

It can ingest all types of data including Relation data and non-relation data and can see data in SQL.

It provides parallel processing which manages analytical workload and processes large volumes of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Synapse Analytics?

Overall Synapse is okay, but there are some problems -

There is no way to migrate data from a Dedicated SQL pool to a Serverless SQL pool, which increases manual intervention and this can be hectic for large data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Synapse Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides a data warehouse, computing power, and dedicated and serverless SQL pools which make Synapse more advanced than the ADF.

In this ETL pipeline, we can create a Notebook and provide them separate computing power and storage to the notebook which processes and ingests data easily.

by using this we can integrate data from various sources like SQL server pools and data warehouses which work efficiently for big data and large amounts of data.

Scaleability which makes this cost-effective and provides seamless computing according to data, and it supports parallel processing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohd T.
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Information Technology and Services
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Products used within Microsoft Azure Databases: Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics
What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Databases?

Easy to use, connectivity from all technologies, easily integrated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Databases?

Cost is little high, it will be expensive for daily tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?

As this is hosted on cloud, so no maintenance is needed that will be done by Microsoft itself Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Databases?

Realize cost savings, stronger security. Confidential computing and hotpatching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Databases?

Price is the only downside. It costs a little more, but does more for the dough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?

security and hybrid capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Azure Databases?

Scalable, Secure, and Seamlessly Integrated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Azure Databases?

Cost, complexity, and occasional downtime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Azure Databases solving and how is that benefiting you?

Enhances scalability, security, and integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sunny T.
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What do you like best about Azure Synapse Analytics?

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Scalability and Performance

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Integration with Azure Services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Synapse Analytics?

Maturity of Features: As with any evolving technology, certain features or functionalities within Azure Synapse Analytics might still be maturing or undergoing improvements. This could result in occasional limitations or gaps in certain areas, requiring workarounds or alternative approaches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Synapse Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data Integration: One of the key challenges in data analytics is integrating data from disparate sources and formats. Azure Synapse Analytics provides seamless integration with various data sources and supports data ingestion from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. This enables organizations to bring all their data together in a unified platform, making it easier to extract insights and gain a holistic view of their data.

Scalability and Performance: Traditional data analytics solutions often struggle to handle large-scale data processing and complex queries efficiently. Azure Synapse Analytics leverages distributed processing capabilities, allowing organizations to scale their analytics workloads as needed. This scalability, combined with its optimized query execution engine, enables faster processing and analysis of massive datasets, accelerating decision-making processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anshul G.
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What do you like best about Azure Synapse Analytics?

The best thing about Azure Synapse analytics platform is that it provides all service under a single umbrella which reduces dependency and also helps in manage all service at once Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Synapse Analytics?

There are many things to dislike about Azure Synapse analytics. One of the things are CTE doesn't support in SQL pool instance either of them serverless or dedicated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Synapse Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure Synapse analytics as a platform is serving well in streaming data with millions of touch points stream through IoT hub and then being processed in synapse platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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