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B. ShiyalBeginning Azure Synapse Analyticshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7061-5_4

4. Architecture and Its Main Components

Bhadresh Shiyal1  
(1)
Mumbai, India
 

Azure Synapse Analytics is architecturally different than a traditional or modern data warehouse platform. It is a data lakehouse; hence, there are many architectural components that are different or new compared to a data warehouse. As discussed in previous chapters, Azure Synapse Analytics is a comprehensive data analytics platform that includes many tools and technologies.

In the previous chapter, we got a very detailed introduction to Azure Synapse Analytics. It gave us a good foundation, as we ...

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