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    Azure Synapse Analytics

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AAzure Synapse Analytics is described as the former Azure SQL Data Warehouse, evolved, and as a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives users the freedom to query data using either serverless or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.

    $4,700

    per month 5000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)

    MySQL Heatwave

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/AHeatWave is an in-memory query accelerator developed for Oracle MySQL Database Service. It’s a massively parallel, hybrid, columnar, query-processing engine with algorithms for distributed query processing that provide high performance for queries.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsMySQL Heatwave
    Editions & Modules
    Tier 1
    $4,700
    per month 5,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 2
    $9,200
    per month 10,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 3
    $21,360
    per month 24,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 4
    $50,400
    per month 60,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 5
    $117,000
    per month 150,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 6
    $259,200
    per month 360,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
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    Azure Synapse AnalyticsMySQL Heatwave
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsMySQL Heatwave
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
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    Usability
    9.6
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    User Testimonials
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsMySQL Heatwave
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    It's well suited for large, fastly growing, and frequently changing data warehouses (e.g., in startups). It's also suited for companies that want a single, relatively easy-to-use, centralized cloud service for all their data needs. Larger, more structured organizations could still benefit from this service by using Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools, knowing that costs will be much higher than other solutions. I think this product is not suited for smaller, simpler workloads (where an Azure SQL Database and a Data Factory could be enough) or very large scenarios, where it may be better to build custom infrastructure.
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    Oracle
    If you need a highly performant database, which is much faster than a conventional RDBMS, without worrying about infrastructure scaling, performance tuning, and query optimization, go for MySQL Heatwave. This is the best in the market. It is also very secure and reliable. Regular backups ensure that your data is safe and consistent always.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Quick to return data. Queries in a SQL data warehouse architecture tend to return data much more quickly than a OLTP setup. Especially with columnar indexes.
    • Ability to manage extremely large SQL tables. Our databases contain billions of records. This would be unwieldy without a proper SQL datawarehouse
    • Backup and replication. Because we're already using SQL, moving the data to a datawarehouse makes it easier to manage as our users are already familiar with SQL.
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    Oracle
    • Data mining
    • Data analysis
    • Parallel computing
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • With Azure, it's always the same issue, too many moving parts doing similar things with no specialisation. ADF, Fabric Data Factory and Synapse pipeline serve the same purpose. Same goes for Fabric Warehouse and Synapse SQL pools.
    • Could do better with serverless workloads considering the competition from databricks and its own fabric warehouse
    • Synapse pipelines is a replica of Azure Data Factory with no tight integration with Synapse and to a surprise, with missing features from ADF. Integration of warehouse can be improved with in environment ETl tools
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    Oracle
    • Pricing can be a concern if not configured properly
    • Not available as a standalone or on premise offering. Only available through OCI
    • No Jobs interface like that in Databricks with Spark and Delta Lake
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    The data warehouse portion is very much like old style on-prem SQL server, so most SQL skills one has mastered carry over easily. Azure Data Factory has an easy drag and drop system which allows quick building of pipelines with minimal coding. The Spark portion is the only really complex portion, but if there's an in-house python expert, then the Spark portion is also quiet useable.
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    Oracle
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Microsoft does its best to support Synapse. More and more articles are being added to the documentation, providing more useful information on best utilizing its features. The examples provided work well for basic knowledge, but more complex examples should be added to further assist in discovering the vast abilities that the system has.
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    Oracle
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    In comparing Azure Synapse to the Google BigQuery - the biggest highlight that I'd like to bring forward is Azure Synapse SQL leverages a scale-out architecture in order to distribute computational processing of data across multiple nodes whereas Google BigQuery only takes into account computation and storage.
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    Oracle
    We have not used other platforms. So, after a market survey on price, support and facilities, we have decided to go for MySQL Heatwave platform. Which integrates many technologies and provide best support, service and pricing. Also, it provides access to database. The speed of the execution is very high.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    Basically, the billing is predictable, and this all about it.
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    Oracle
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Licensing fees is replaced with Azure subscription fee. No big saving there
    • More visibility into the Azure usage and cost
    • It can be used a hot storage and old data can be archived to data lake. Real time data integration is possible via external tables and Microsoft Power BI
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    Oracle
    • We no longer have to write data pipelines in Spark anymore for executing ML/Analytics Workloads
    • Execution time of the analytics platforms has reduced considerably
    • Overall time to market has gone down drastically
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