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Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

By : Patrik Borosch
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Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

By: Patrik Borosch

Overview of this book

Azure Data Lake, the modern data warehouse architecture, and related data services on Azure enable organizations to build their own customized analytical platform to fit any analytical requirements in terms of volume, speed, and quality. This book is your guide to learning all the features and capabilities of Azure data services for storing, processing, and analyzing data (structured, unstructured, and semi-structured) of any size. You will explore key techniques for ingesting and storing data and perform batch, streaming, and interactive analytics. The book also shows you how to overcome various challenges and complexities relating to productivity and scaling. Next, you will be able to develop and run massive data workloads to perform different actions. Using a cloud-based big data-modern data warehouse-analytics setup, you will also be able to build secure, scalable data estates for enterprises. Finally, you will not only learn how to develop a data warehouse but also understand how to create enterprise-grade security and auditing big data programs. By the end of this Azure book, you will have learned how to develop a powerful and efficient analytical platform to meet enterprise needs.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Data Warehousing and Considerations Regarding Cloud Computing
4
Section 2: The Storage Layer
7
Section 3: Cloud-Scale Data Integration and Data Transformation
14
Section 4: Data Presentation, Dashboarding, and Distribution

Discovering Azure Industry Data Workbench

Recently, Microsoft has launched a beta version of the so-called Industry Data Workbench. This is a new application that will give you a graphical interface to industry data models for 10 different industries:

Figure 13.2 – Available industry models of Industry Data Workbench

When you click on one of the tiles, you are taken to a development canvas. You can choose to browse the whole collection graphically by browsing to the Select entities by enterprise model drop-down box in the upper-left corner and checking the whole group:

Figure 13.3 – The whole group for Consumer Goods selected

The canvas will display all the tables and their relationships and you can zoom in and out as you wish:

Figure 13.4 – Graphical representation of the Consumer Goods model

In the lower-right corner, you will find a small navigation map that will help you in moving...