Microsoft azure data lake architecture is helping data scientists engineers and analysts by solving much of their big data dilemma.
Azure data lake storage architecture.
Disk storage high performance highly durable block storage for azure virtual machines.
Azure data lake storage static website now in preview.
Optimize cost and performance with query acceleration for azure.
Data lake storage is designed for fault tolerance infinite scalability and high throughput ingestion of data with varying shapes and sizes.
Azure data explorer fast and highly scalable data exploration service.
Azure data lake storage massively scalable secure data lake functionality built on azure blob storage.
In microsoft s own words.
Data lake storage gen2 is the result of converging the capabilities of our two existing storage services azure blob storage and azure data lake storage gen1.
Features from azure data lake storage gen1 such as file system semantics directory and file level security and scale are combined with low cost tiered storage high availability.
When to use a data lake.
This scalable cloud data lake offers a single storage structure for multiple analytic projects of different sizes.
Typical uses for a data lake.
Azure data lake storage file snapshots are now in preview.
Azure data lake storage archive tier is now generally available.
Azure data lake storage immutable storage is now in preview.
File storage file shares that use the standard smb 3 0 protocol.
Data lake processing involves one or more processing engines built with these goals in mind and can operate on data stored in a data lake at scale.
Azure data lake analytics supports only azure data lake store and azure blob storage.