Azure Synapse: Best for unified data analytics across big data systems and data warehouses. Databricks: Best for use cases such as streaming, machine learning, and data science-based analytics.

“There’s a large base of Microsoft Azure customers looking for a high-performance analytics platform based on Spark – and Databricks is already the leading Cloud platform for Spark.

Asad Khan, Senior Analytics Engineering Leader at Microsoft, oversees teams on Azure Databricks, SQL Server, coming from a rich background of managing the development HDInsight in past years. He ...