Comparison of Fabric, Azure Databricks and Synapse Analytics
Microsoft Fabric vs Databricks vs Synapse
Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one SaaS analytics platform with integrated BI. Databricks is a Spark-based platform mainly used for large-scale data engineering and machine learning. Synapse is an enterprise analytics service combining SQL data warehousing and big data processing.
Platform
Description (English)
Microsoft Fabric
An all-in-one SaaS data platform that integrates data engineering, data science, warehousing, real-time analytics, and BI.
Azure Databricks
A Spark-based analytics and AI platform optimized for large-scale data engineering and machine learning.
Azure Synapse Analytics
An analytics service combining data warehousing and big data analytics.
Architecture
Microsoft Fabric: Fully integrated SaaS platform built around OneLake. single data lake, unified workspace, built-in Power BI
Databricks: Spark-native architecture optimized for big data processing. Delta Lake, Spark clusters, ML workloads
Synapse: Hybrid analytics platform integrating SQL data warehouse and big data tools.
