Along with data lake microsoft introduced azure u sql.
Azure data lake storage architecture.
Data lake storage gen2 is the result of converging the capabilities of our two existing storage services azure blob storage and azure data lake storage gen1.
Microsoft azure data lake architecture is helping data scientists engineers and analysts by solving much of their big data dilemma.
Features from azure data lake storage gen1 such as file system semantics directory and file level security and scale are combined with low cost tiered storage high availability.
An introduction to u sql.
This scalable cloud data lake offers a single storage structure for multiple analytic projects of different sizes.
Azure data lake analytics includes u sql a language that unifies the benefits of sql with the expressive power of your own code.
Optimize cost and performance with query acceleration for azure.
Data lake storage is designed for fault tolerance infinite scalability and high throughput ingestion of data with varying shapes and sizes.
Azure data lake analytics supports only azure data lake store and azure blob storage.
Azure data lake storage file snapshots are now in preview.
Disk storage high performance highly durable block storage for azure virtual machines.
File storage file shares that use the standard smb 3 0 protocol.
Azure data lake storage archive tier is now generally available.
Azure data lake storage static website now in preview.
Data lake processing involves one or more processing engines built with these goals in mind and can operate on data stored in a data lake at scale.
In microsoft s own words.
When to use a data lake.
Azure data lake storage massively scalable secure data lake functionality built on azure blob storage.