Azure Data Lake Analytics vs. Azure Stream Analytics

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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Data enrichment is effectively done in stream analytics also checking the values with different functionality like windowing and group by clause is effectively working.

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• 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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• Routing of data from multiple inputs to multiple output
• You create your own user define function.
• Intermediate query is working very effectively.

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• 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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• Code competency is not that much effective
• Ml models can't be integrated with stream analytics

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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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Azure Stream Analytics is easy to implement and also to integrate compare to other services like iot analytics

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• 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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• Very nice roi while using it.
• Multiple integration is the best functionality

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