Azure Data Lake Storage vs. Kognitio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Data Lake Storage
Score 9.6 out of 10
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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
Kognitio
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
WX2 is the data and analytics focused data warehouse appliance solution from UK company Kognitio.N/A
Pricing
Azure Data Lake StorageKognitio
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Community Pulse
Azure Data Lake StorageKognitio
Considered Both Products
Azure Data Lake Storage
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Chose Azure Data Lake Storage
Snowflake, Apache Hive, Google BigQuery, Alteryx and Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform)
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 …
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.
Chose Azure Data Lake Storage
Simpler to use, in my opinion. It is also slightly cheaper.
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 …
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 …
Kognitio
Chose Kognitio
The understandable and complete tables and graphs, the cleaning methods and the way of encrypting the data are quite feasible, which does not help to prepare our data, it helps that the data that is thrown as results is separated from each other, the process prior to …
Chose Kognitio
We selected Kognitio because of the legacy systems that are still running. Also, we have legacy systems in place that are fit for Kognitio. End-user has good feedback on our side when we started implementing this solution. Current servers are compatible with Kognitio in place.
Best Alternatives
Azure Data Lake StorageKognitio
Small Businesses
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier
Score 9.1 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 9.7 out of 10
Cloudera Manager
Cloudera Manager
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 9.7 out of 10
IBM Analytics Engine
IBM Analytics Engine
Score 7.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Data Lake StorageKognitio
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Azure Data Lake StorageKognitio
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure Data Lake storage is well suited for applications/use cases within organizations where capturing and storing large amounts of data in any format is required, primarily for storing and processing purposes. It's an easy and cost-effective cloud solution for your application data. The ability to integrate with other Azure Services like Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory is superb.
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What I like most is the IN Memory capability it is doing, as we all know RAM is faster than disk. The capability to connect different databases. Beginners should also take note of the Data Disk Management because anytime it could go wrong, you should have experience in dealing with this kind of event.
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Pros
  • Azure Data Lake Storage is extremely scalable. It allows us to scale up or down endlessly based on what we need including replication.
  • In terms of security, Azure Data Lake Storage fits our requirements really well as we can monitor and encrypt seamlessly. We can also assign permissions through roles and grant network-level access.
  • Due to the fact that it can scale, we are able to monitor the cost of storage and any given time and make financial decisions about our infrastructure based on how small or big we want to scale.
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  • Ultra fast query results.
  • IN Memory Database.
  • Easy integration to reporting services.
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Cons
  • I'd like to see a better cross-platform native client. Azure Data Explorer is fine, but it's far from the "SSMS" kind of experience SQL Server users are used to.
  • Listing a large number of file is somewhat problematic and slow. Using the native C# library, running directly on an Azure VM, it can take several hours to list just a couple million files.
  • Switching from V1 to V2 requires the creation of a new Storage Account and that's pretty inconvenient.
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  • Problems Could Be Encountered is particularly pronounced in more complex analyses.
  • Categorical variables are often not precise enough
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Alternatives Considered
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 multiple platforms and programming languages. It can work with your existing solutions, such as identity management and security solutions. It also integrates with other data warehouses and cloud environments. It can be useful for organizations that need the above softwares.
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The understandable and complete tables and graphs, the cleaning methods and the way of encrypting the data are quite feasible, which does not help to prepare our data, it helps that the data that is thrown as results is separated from each other, the process prior to structuring requires high-level advice and is somewhat time-consuming, there is a risk that they overwrite the data themselves by accident at a later time
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Return on Investment
  • The cost can be high for more advanced work. In some cases, for instance, time limits and lab runtimes may be too short if you are too slow to learn what is explained as you go along.
  • promote flexible team communication. You can create different spaces for different teams, and share files and tasks.
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  • The implementation of the formats to integrate the users we have and the program is also good.
  • I also improve the control of aspects related to the work environment
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