Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Data Lake Storage

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Azure Data Lake Storage	Score9.7 out of 10	N/A	Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a highly scalable and cost-effective data lake solution for big data analytics. It combines the power of a high-performance file system with massive scale and economy to help you speed your time to insight. Data Lake Storage Gen2 extends Azure Blob Storage capabilities and is optimized for analytics workloads.	N/A

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	Azure Data Lake Storage
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Abhishek Katara Technical Lead in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Azure Data Lake Storage We have used both Hadoop and GCS buckets for our storage needs of very large healthcare data. In terms of comparison with the Hadoop distributed Files system, Azure Data Lake Storage always stands in a far better position due to easy integration with various latest and widely … Incentivized Helpful? David Vaughn Network Engineer in Information Technology at Willis-Knighton Health System (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Azure Data Lake Storage Azure Data Lake Storage from a functionality perspective is a much easier solution to work with. It's implementation from Amazon EMR went smooth, and continued usage is definitely better. However, Amazon EMR was significantly cheaper overall between the high transaction fees … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Data Lake Storage We chose Azure Data Lake due to the fact that it was already a product under the Azure application suite. We didn't have to focus on integrating another 3rd party application within our environment. Also due to the fact Azure Data Lake scales its storage pools very efficiently, … Incentivized Helpful? Davide De Pretto Software Engineer in Engineering at Witailer (Retail, 51-200 employees) Chose Azure Data Lake Storage We decided long ago to develop for the Azure platform, so we only evaluate products from within Azure. And Azure Data Lake Storage is really the dominant offering within its space. But to give you a comparison, previously we used to use Azure SQL Database for our analytical … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Data Lake Storage Microsoft solutions provide great harmony in end-to-end data value creation, and Azure Data Lake Storage is highly compatible with other analytical solutions, e.g., Azure Data Factory and Databricks. So I would say that it is at the heart of the analytical solution in the … Incentivized Helpful? Steve Lollar IT Support Specialist II in Information Technology at Nantahala Outdoor Center (Hospitality, 51-200 employees) Chose Azure Data Lake Storage AWS charges you on an hourly basis but Azure has a pricing model of per minute charge. In terms of short term subscriptions, Azure has more flexibility but it is more expensive. Azure has a much better hybrid cloud support in comparison with AWS. AWS provides direct connections … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Data Lake Storage I am much more familiar with Snowflake. I thought it was fairly straightforward to use and did not have to learn much syntax. With Azure Data Lake Storage, I have had to learn some new syntax and thought there was a steeper learning curve. We selected it because of cost savings. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Data Lake Storage Simpler to use, in my opinion. It is also slightly cheaper. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Data Lake Storage We looked at the Amazon solution and it did not play as well with our existing tools and added a layer of maintenance that we were not willing to take on at the time. We thought that our Microsoft contract and support were good and that our internal team had the knowledge to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Data Lake Storage The Azure Data Lake solution is designed for organizations that want to take advantage of big data. It provides a data platform that can help developers, data scientists, and analysts store data of any size and format and perform all types of processing and analytics across … Incentivized Helpful?
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	92% Would buy again 12 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	92% Delivers good value for the price 11 Answers
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 10 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
92% Implementation went as expected 11 Answers

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	Azure Data Lake Storage
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Enterprises	Google Cloud Storage Score8.4 out of 10
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	Azure Data Lake Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (13 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure Data Lake Storage
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Azure Data Lake is an absolutely essential piece of a modern data and analytics platform. Over the past 2 years, our usage of Azure Data Lake as a reporting source has continued to grow and far exceeds more traditional sources like MS SQL, Oracle, etc. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Setting up Azure Data Lake Storage account, container is quite easy Access from anywhere and easy maintenance Integration with Azure Data Factory service for end to end pipeline is pretty easy Can store Any form of data (Structured, Unstructured, Semi) in faster manner Incentivized Abhishek Katara Technical Lead Read full review
Cons	Microsoft study for the certifications also to have them as a reference for work when you have any questions about applying a configuration to the equipment. The Internet interface is simple and easy to use. Capacity is good and it's good that HP continues to innovate with this technology Incentivized Daniel Ortiz Gerente de marketing Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage from a functionality perspective is a much easier solution to work with. It's implementation from Amazon EMR went smooth, and continued usage is definitely better. However, Amazon EMR was significantly cheaper overall between the high transaction fees and cost of storage due to growth. The two both have their advantages and disadvantages, but the functionality of Azure Data Lake Storage outweighed it's cost Incentivized David Vaughn Network Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft Instead of having separate pools of storage for data we are now operating on a single layer platform which has cut down on time spent on maintaining those separate pools. We have had more of an ROI with the scalability as we are able to control costs of storage when need be. We are able to operate in a more streamlined approach as we are able to stay within the Azure suite of products and integrate seamlessly with the rest of the applications in our cloud-based infrastructure Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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