Azure Databricks vs Azure Synapse

Soumak Das
3 min readSep 22, 2023

Introduction

Azure Databricks: A Deep Dive

Azure Databricks, built on Apache Spark, stands as a powerful analytics platform optimized for Microsoft Azure. It’s designed to facilitate seamless collaboration among data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts. The platform offers a dynamic workspace that fosters interactive cooperation, ensuring that teams can efficiently work together.

Azure Databricks has earned its reputation as a powerhouse for machine learning development. With ML-optimized runtimes…

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Soumak Das

Sr. Data Engineer @EY & Snowflake/Airflow/Databricks/AWS writer