Third Generation Data Platforms: A First Look at Microsoft Fabric

Evolution

Towards the end of 2019, Azure SQL Data Warehouse was integrated as 'Dedicated SQL pools' into Synapse Analytics. Synapse brought in additional Serverless and Big Data Analytics capabilities.

Microsoft Fabric, now in Public Preview, represents the next evolution of data platforms in the Azure cloud, unifying a bunch of PaaS services into a single SaaS platform. Fabric is presented as an end-to-end, unified analytics platform serving engineers, data scientists, business analysts, and business users alike. The components of this new platform are of two main types:

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