Azure Synapse wins. But for those needing more robust ELT (extract, load, transform), data science, and machine learning features, Databricks is the winner. Synapse’s reliance on SQL and Azure ...

In a matter of hours, Azure Synapse will deliver useful business insights that used to take days or even weeks and months, said Rohan Kumar, corporate vice president for Azure Data.

Azure Synapse is better set up for users that just want to deploy a good data warehouse and analytics tool rapidly without being bogged down by configurations, data science minutia, or manual setup.

Enterprises that use Azure Synapse to merge insights from data warehouses and data lakes need a data transformation solution that can pull in data from a variety of sources, and transform it to ...