Azure Synapse Analytics is continually focused on delivering a highly performant and scalable platform for supporting Spark Workload
.We are focused on improving the query performance for the typical workload patterns that we see with our customers. By combining the latest open-source updates in Apache Spark with our team’s focus on performance updates we have made significant performance gains in standard TPC-DS benchmarking tests.
I expect it will never be as fast as what Databricks can do, but getting a 2x performance improvement over the open source version of Spark is nothing to sneeze at.