Components
In Figure 15.1, starting from left to right, let’s look at each component and understand their functionality/attributes.
Source data
Source data can be semi-structured data such as web logs in JSON or comma-separated files or structured data from sales, marketing, and inventory databases.
Azure Synapse pipelines
Azure Synapse pipelines function the same as Azure Data Factory, except that they are integrated into Synapse Studio. This allows data engineers and data scientists to share the same workspace for preprocessing and analyzing the data. Azure Synapse pipelines will ingest the semi-structured logs and structured data from company databases into the data lake. They have the same number of connectors as Azure Data Factory to connect to different data sources. For more information on Azure Synapse, please refer to the following links:
- Azure Synapse documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/get-started-pipelines ...