Understanding ADLS
When considering your storage solution, you must consider the amount of data you want to store. Depending on your answer, you may choose a different option from the services available in Azure – Azure Storage, Azure SQL, or Azure Cosmos DB. There is also a variety of databases available as images for virtual machines (VMs) (such as Cassandra or MongoDB); the ecosystem is quite rich, so everyone can find what they are looking for. A problem arises when you do not have an upper limit for data stored or, considering the characteristics of today’s applications, that amount grows so rapidly that there is no possibility to declare a safe limit, which we will never hit. For those kinds of scenarios, there is a separate kind of storage named data lakes. These allow you to store data in its natural format, so it does not imply any kind of structure over information stored. In Azure, a solution for that kind of problem is named ADLS...
