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Building an End-to-End Analytics System – Lakehouse

Traditionally, for their analytics needs, companies have struggled to manage two different analytics systems: a relational data warehouse to manage and process primarily structured data and a data lake for big data processing (primarily unstructured data). This has not only created data silos and redundancy across multiple systems but has also increased the overall effort to develop and manage the increased total cost of ownership. Microsoft Fabric bridges this gap by unifying different data stores (data warehouses and data lakes) by standardizing data storage using the Delta Lake format in OneLake for lakehouses.

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