Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics

52 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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 Synapse Analytics

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 Synapse Analytics
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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	Azure Synapse Analytics
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Azure Synapse Analytics They're all part of the Microsoft Azure family, so they are not exactly competitors. They overlap in functionality, but they're targeted at different levels of customers. Azure Data Factory is an excellent stand-alone PaaS (included in Synapse Analytics) for writing, scheduling, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Synapse Analytics When client is already having or using Azure then it’s wise to go with Synapse rather than using Snowflake. We got a lot of help from Microsoft consultants and Microsoft partners while implementing our EDW via Synapse and support is easily available via Microsoft resources and … Incentivized Helpful? 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? Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing in Marketing at Franklin Sports (Sporting Goods, 201-500 employees) Chose Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics stacks up well against the competitors I mentioned above. Technically, Azure SQL Datawarehouse is an upgraded version of the Azure SQL Database. So, the choice to move from one to the other depends on the processing needs of your company. If you need … Incentivized Helpful? Samir Patel, PMP SQL Development Team Lead in Information Technology at Allianz Asset Management (Investment Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Azure Synapse Analytics We also looked at Oracle Data Warehouse as part of our short list of products to implement as a solution. Oracle's product turned out to have less support by way of easily accessible internet blogs. Oracle was also considerably more expensive and we would have needed to hire … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Synapse Analytics SQL Data Warehousing is much easier to manage if you already have SQL Server experience and analysts who are familiar with its interface. We are currently piloting using NoSQL and Hadoop type databases but it is difficult to get set up properly. Additionally, we have to … Incentivized Helpful? Paras Jasal Data Engineer in Engineering at Celebal Technologies (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Azure Synapse Analytics Synapse, in comparison has its ups and downs against the competitors. However, where it excels, and builds it's markets is the cheaper costs (compared to Redshift), low code platforms and an in house solution that does not need you to leave the Synapse workspace for end to end … Incentivized Helpful? Borna Marković Data Engineer in Information Technology at BDR (Wholesale, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Azure Synapse Analytics Databricks is a complete product with new features constantly coming out. This can be both good or bad, with a lot of innovation comes a responsibility to keep your code and pipelines fresh. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Synapse Analytics Our team evaluated multiple platform as I mentioned above , but we stacks up Azure Synapse Analytics because : 1. Easy UI and Unified platform advantage 2. Tight integrations with MS ecosystem. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Azure Synapse Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (9 ratings)
Usability	9.6 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	10.0 (1 ratings)