Azure Data Lake Analytics

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Azure Data Lake Analytics
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Microsoft's Azure Data Lake Analytics is a BI service for processing big data jobs without consideration for infrastructure.N/A
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Azure Data Lake Analytics
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Azure Data Lake Analytics
Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
Azure Data Lake simplifies extensive data analysis. It runs Hadoop, HDInsight, and Data Lakes, and even complex queries run smoothly and quickly. We write queries to transform data and extract insights instead of configuring hardware. It can handle any size job by adjusting the …
Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
Compared to Databricks which we have fully implemented and all teams use, Azure Data Lake Analytics was first pushed on our engineering team from the Data Science group pretty much from familiarity. Once we did a proof of technology, we found it to natively have the better …
Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
We did some research about Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Analytics and even being cheaper than Azure Data Lake Analytics, we decided to go for the second one once we noticed they have more features and better documentation. Another thing we considered during this process was the fact …
Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
ADL Analytics supports big data such as Hadoop, HDInsight, Data lakes. Usually, a traditional data warehouse stores data from various data sources, transform data into a single format and analyze for decision making. Developers use complex queries that might take longer hours …
Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
Both of the products selected are very good at what they do, but data lake analytics is able to bundle everything else within our preexisting data lake, which is a very big [deciding] factor.
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Azure Data Lake Analytics
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8.7
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User Testimonials
Azure Data Lake Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure Data Lake Analytics services are beneficial when working with a lot of data. It can process enormous amounts of data extremely quickly. Service is secure and easy to set up, build, scale, and run on Azure. Regarding big data analytics and reporting, parallel processing has a significant impact. It consolidated our analytics from multiple systems and increased our analysis productivity. This tool has excellent support for reporting tools like Power BI and is very quick when performing analytics.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Process large data transformation jobs using pretty much any language needed.
  • Native integration with Azure storage.
  • Top notch security that fulfills all audit needs.
  • Easy to consolidate enterprise data under one location - Single source of truth.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • There's a bit of bias towards cloud with ADL Analytics. Depending upon a company's infra strategy and investment plans, there are some challenges with migration and integeration.
  • Not worth the time/effort/money if the organization doesn't have "Volume" of data. Cost effective only when daily loads exceed around 1million.
  • While training materials are available online, Adoption rate - Yet to pick up.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
We did some research about Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Analytics and even being cheaper than Azure Data Lake Analytics, we decided to go for the second one once we noticed they have more features and better documentation. Another thing we considered during this process was the fact that we have more people that already have Azure Cloud knowledge.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • It lets us manage and scan data, making our work easy and efficient.
  • It helped me manage real-time data, process it, and send it to reporting.
  • Data centralization or data warehousing projects are being implemented with its help.
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