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Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

You're reading from  Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800205659
Pages 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Prashant Kumar Mishra Prashant Kumar Mishra
Profile icon Prashant Kumar Mishra

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface Section 1: The Basics and Key Concepts
Chapter 1: Introduction to Azure Synapse Chapter 2: Considerations for Your Compute Environment Section 2: Data Ingestion and Orchestration
Chapter 3: Bringing Your Data to Azure Synapse Chapter 4: Using Synapse Pipelines to Orchestrate Your Data Chapter 5: Using Synapse Link with Azure Cosmos DB Section 3: Azure Synapse for Data Scientists and Business Analysts
Chapter 6: Working with T-SQL in Azure Synapse Chapter 7: Working with R, Python, Scala, .NET, and Spark SQL in Azure Synapse Chapter 8: Integrating a Power BI Workspace with Azure Synapse Chapter 9: Perform Real-Time Analytics on Streaming Data Chapter 10: Generate Powerful Insights on Azure Synapse Using Azure ML Section 4: Best Practices
Chapter 11: Performing Backup and Restore in Azure Synapse Analytics Chapter 12: Securing Data on Azure Synapse Chapter 13: Managing and Monitoring Synapse Workloads Chapter 14: Coding Best Practices Other Books You May Enjoy

Data storage

A Cosmos DB analytical store is fully isolated from transactional workloads. The operational data in a Cosmos DB container is internally stored in row-based transactional stores in order to allow fast transactional reads and writes.

It is not recommended to run complex queries on your transactional workload – it may cause bad performance for your application running these queries. Ideally, you should add an analytical data layer on top of Cosmos DB transactional data if you want to perform complex operations on the data. The major caveat for this architecture is an ETL operation for data sync between transactional and analytical data stores. This additional step may lead to increased Total Cost of Operation (TCO) and overhead of maintaining the data in sync always.

With this new feature of Synapse Link, Cosmos DB gives you the flexibility to enable an analytical store within your Cosmos DB account without performing an ETL operation. Both the data layers are...

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