Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a cloud data integration platform that allows you to automate various data-related tasks, such as copying data between data stores, running analytical workloads, and retraining machine learning models. It supports a wide range of different data stores, including products from other vendors. Via its integration runtime model, ADF can also connect to on-premises locations such as self-hosted SQL databases.
ADF can make use of many different types of computing resources in the Azure catalogue. These include Machine Learning Studio, ADLA, Databricks, and HDInsight. ADF can also make requests to any service that exposes a REST API, such as Cognitive Services.
Data Factory is developed with ADF Visual Tools, a web portal dedicated to development and management. After creating the Data Factory resource in the portal, you can open the Visual...