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What is Microsoft Fabric for Azure Cloud (Beyond the Buzz) and how it Competes with Snowflake and Databricks
If you ask your favorite large language model, Microsoft Fabric appears to be the ultimate solution for any data challenge you can imagine. That’s also the impression many people get from Microsoft’s sales teams. But is it really the silver bullet it’s made out to be? This article takes a closer look. The first part explores the glossy marketing and sales definition of the platform. The second part looks the layers and deconstructs it from a more practical perspective. By doing so, the third part uncovers what Microsoft Fabric is truly built for, and how it fits into the wider data landscape, especially in comparison to other major players in the data analytics market like Databricks and Snowflake.
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This is part one of a blog series about Microsoft Fabric and its relation to other data platforms on the Azure cloud:
- What is Microsoft Fabric for Azure Cloud (Beyond the Buzz) and how it Compares (or Competes) with Snowflake and Databricks
- How Microsoft Fabric Complements Data Streaming (Apache Kafka, Flink, et al.)
