Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA) is a distributed analytics service built on Apache YARN. It handles jobs of any scale instantly by simply setting the dial for how much compute power is needed. Customer pays only pay for the cost of the query.
ADLA supports Azure Active Directory for Access Control, Roles, Integration with on-premises identity systems. It also includes U-SQL, a language that unifies the benefits of SQL with the expressive power of C#; runtime processes data across multiple Azure data sources.
ADLA allows you to compute on data anywhere and a join data from multiple cloud sources like Azure SQL DW, Azure SQL DB, ADLS, Azure Storage Blobs, SQL Server in Azure VM.
ADLA supports U-SQL, Hive, Pig jobs.
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