Ginger Grant helps us make the decision between using Azure Data Lake Analytics and Azure Databricks:
Databricks is a recent addition to Azure that is greatly influencing the technology choices that people are making when determining how to process data. Prior to the introduction of Databricks to Azure in March of 2018, if you had a lot of unstructured data which was stored in HDFS clusters, and wanted to analyze it in a scalable fashion, the choice was Data Lake and using USQL with Data Lake Analytics. With the introduction of Databricks, there is now a choice for analysis between Data Lake Analytics and Databricks for analyzing data.
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