What is Azure Synapse Analytics used for?

Azure Synapse Analytics is a Microsoft Azure analytics service that brings together enterprise SQL data warehousing, big data analytics and data integration. It is a good fit for enterprise data warehouse on Azure, and combining warehouse and big data analytics.

How much does Azure Synapse Analytics cost?

Azure Synapse Analytics is a paid product with no free plan.

Is Azure Synapse Analytics open source?

No. Azure Synapse Analytics is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Azure Synapse Analytics include ClickHouse, Trino and Databend.

What are some alternatives to Azure Synapse Analytics?

Azure Synapse Analytics competes with Snowflake, Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Azure Synapse Analytics alternatives.

Azure Synapse Analytics: features, pricing and alternatives

About Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics is a Microsoft analytics service that combines enterprise SQL data warehousing with big data analytics. Microsoft positions it as a way to reduce the time to insight across data warehouses and big data systems by putting these services in one place.

The service brings together SQL-based warehousing, big data processing and data integration under a single Azure experience, so analysts and data engineers can query, transform and load data without stitching separate products together. Microsoft's Azure site also promotes Microsoft Fabric as a separate analytics offering, so buyers may want to compare the two.

Synapse is a proprietary Microsoft Azure service and cannot be self-hosted. Pricing is part of Azure's usage-based model, described on the Azure pricing pages.

Key features

Enterprise SQL data warehousing
Big data analytics in the same service
Data integration and pipelines
Single workspace for analysts and engineers
Integration with Azure services

Good fit for

→Enterprise data warehouse on Azure
→Combining warehouse and big data analytics

Tags: data-warehouse; analytics; azure; big-data; sql; data-integration; microsoft

Azure Synapse Analytics: questions and answers

What is Azure Synapse Analytics used for?: Azure Synapse Analytics is a Microsoft Azure analytics service that brings together enterprise SQL data warehousing, big data analytics and data integration. It is a good fit for enterprise data warehouse on Azure, and combining warehouse and big data analytics.
How much does Azure Synapse Analytics cost?: Azure Synapse Analytics is a paid product with no free plan.
Is Azure Synapse Analytics open source?: No. Azure Synapse Analytics is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Azure Synapse Analytics include ClickHouse, Trino and Databend.
What are some alternatives to Azure Synapse Analytics?: Azure Synapse Analytics competes with Snowflake, Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Azure Synapse Analytics alternatives.