There's a new buzzword on the loose, the "data lake." At first glance, a data lake could be easily mistaken for a data warehouse. The two big data concepts have a common focus on analytics and they ...

The goal of Gen2 - beyond ensuring the expected performance improvements - was to make Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) more compatible with the Apache ecosystem. Now, because ADLS is built on top of ...

Microsoft is making a preview release of its second generation version of its Azure Data Lake Storage Service. Calling the "Gen2" version a "no-compromise data lake," Microsoft officials announced the ...

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