What Is Microsoft Fabric and Why You Should Care?
Unified Software as a Service (SaaS), offering End-To-End analytics platform
Gives you a bunch of tools all together, Microsoft Fabric OneLake supports seamless integration, enabling collaboration on this unified data analytics platform
Scalable Analytics
Accessibility from anywhere with an internet connection
Streamlines collaboration among data professionals
Empowering low-to-no-code approach
Components of Microsoft Fabric
Fabric provides comprehensive data analytics solutions, encompassing services for data movement and transformation, analysis and actions, and deriving insights and patterns through machine learning. Although Microsoft Fabric includes several components, this article will use three primary experiences: Data Factory, Data Warehouse, and Power BI.
Lake House vs. Warehouse: Which Data Storage Solution is Right for You?
In simple terms, the underlying storage format in both Lake Houses and Warehouses is the Delta format, an enhanced version of the Parquet format.
Usage and Format Support
A Lake House combines the capabilities of a data lake and a data warehouse, supporting unstructured, semi-structured, and structured formats. In contrast, a data Warehouse supports only structured formats.
When your organization needs to process big data characterized by high volume, velocity, and variety, and when you require data loading and transformation using Spark engines via notebooks, a Lake House is recommended. A Lakehouse can process both structured tables and unstructured/semi-structured files, offering managed and external table options. Microsoft Fabric OneLake serves as the foundational layer for storing structured and unstructured data
Notebooks can be used for READ and WRITE operations in a Lakehouse. However, you cannot connect to a Lake House with an SQL client directly, without using SQL endpoints.
On the other hand, a Warehouse excels in processing and storing structured formats, utilizing store