Azure Data Lake Storage vs. Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Data Lake Storage

33 Reviews and Ratings

Azure Synapse Analytics

52 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Azure Synapse Analytics	Score6.9 out of 10	N/A	Azure 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)

Pricing

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Synapse Analytics

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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)

Pricing Offerings
Azure Data Lake Storage	Azure Synapse Analytics
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Azure Data Lake Storage	Azure Synapse Analytics
Considered Both Products	Microsoft 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?	Microsoft Verified User Chose Azure Synapse Analytics 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 … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Azure Data Lake Storage	Azure Synapse Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (13 ratings)	8.1 (9 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.6 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.6 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)