Today’s Big data solutions have been driving some organizations from “rear-view mirror” thinking to forward-looking and predictive analytics. However, there has been adoption challenges and the widespread usage of big data has not yet occurred. Azure Data Lake was introduced to drive big data adoption by making big data easy for developers, data scientists, and analysts to store data of any size, shape, and speed, and do all types of processing and analytics across platforms and languages. It removes the complexities of ingesting and storing all your data while making it faster to get up and running with big data.
Azure Data Lake store can handle any data in their native format, as is, without requiring prior transformations. Data Lake store does not require a schema to be defined before the data is uploaded, leaving it up to the individual analytic framework to interpret the data and define a schema at the time of the analysis. Being able to store files of arbitrary size and formats makes it possible for Data Lake store to handle structured, semi-structured, and even unstructured data.
What is Azure Data Lake Analytics?
Azure Data Lake Analytics service is a new distributed analytics job service that dynamically scales so you can focus on your business goals, not on distributed infrastructure. Instead of deploying, configuring and tuning hardware, you write queries to transform your data and extract valuable insights. The analytics service can handle jobs of any scale instantly by simply setting the dial for how much power you need. You only pay for your job when it is running making it cost-effective.
Azure Data Lake Analytics also provides a unified big data developer platform that integrates language, runtime, tooling, development environments, resource management, extensibility security that makes developers and ISVs far more productive. It supports the entire end-to-end big data development lifecycle from authoring, to debugging, monitoring, and optimization.
Azure Data Lake store pricing
Data Lake Store is currently available in US-2 region and offers preview pricing rates (excluding Outbound Data transfer):
Conclusion
Azure Data Lake is an important new part of Microsoft’s ambitious cloud offering. With Data Lake, Microsoft provides service to store and analyze data of any size at an affordable cost. In related posts, we will learn more about Data Lake Store, Data Lake Analytics, and HDInsight.
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