An overview of Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics enables data professionals to build end-to-end analytics solutions while leveraging a unified experience. It delivers rich functionalities for SQL developers, serverless on-demand querying, machine learning support, the ability to embed Spark natively, collaborative notebooks, and data integration within a single service. Developers can choose from a variety of supported languages (for example, C#, SQL, Scala, and Python) through different engines.

Some of the main capabilities of Azure Synapse Analytics include:

• SQL Analytics with pools (fully provisioned) and on-demand (serverless).
• Spark with full support for Python, Scala, C#, and SQL.
• Data Flow with code-free big data transformation experience.
• Data integration and orchestration to integrate data and operationalize code development.
• A cloud-native version of Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP), delivered by Azure Synapse Link...