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Azure Data Factory vs. Azure Synapse Analytics

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure Data Factory

by Microsoft

Azure Synapse Analytics

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.64.4
Review count10238
Ease of use9.19.0
Ease of setup9.28.8
Quality of support9.08.9
Meets requirements9.39.0
NPS76.2886659.459459
Small Business11.9%24.3%
Mid-Market28.7%43.2%
Enterprise59.4%32.4%
Total page views445361
Total LLM citations1,119566

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a fully managed, serverless data integration service designed to simplify the process of ingesting, preparing, and transforming data from diverse sources. It enables organizations to construct and orchestrate Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) workflows in a code-free environment, facilitating seamless data movement and transformation across on-premises and cloud-based systems.

Pros

  • Data Integration
  • Ease of Use
  • Integrations
  • Scalability
  • Connectors
  • Simple

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics is a cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) that leverages Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data.

Pros

  • Cost-Effective
  • Automation
  • Efficiency
  • Machine Learning
  • Unified Platform
  • Scaling