- Azure Data Lake makes big data easy to manage, debug, and optimize through services like Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Data Lake Analytics.
- Azure Data Lake Store provides a hyper-scale data lake that allows storing any data in its native format at unlimited scale. Azure Data Lake Analytics allows running distributed queries and analytics jobs on data stored in Data Lake Store.
- Azure Data Lake is based on open source technologies like Apache Hadoop, YARN, and provides a managed service with auto-scaling and a pay-per-use model through the Azure portal and tools like Visual Studio.