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September 05, 2019

Azure SQL Server VS Azure Data Warehouse

Azure SQL Server
  • Database size limit is 4TB
  • Optimized for OLTP loads
  • Cross-database queries are supported
  • Automatic performance tuning of a database is supported


Azure Data Warehouse
  • Supports up to 1 Peta Byte (1024 TB) size.
  • Optimized for OLAP loads
  • MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) system (data is processed on multiple parallel nodes)
  • Polybase support to load data from multiple systems.
  • Cross-database queries are not supported.
  • Manual performance tuning.
  • You can pause and resume the database to reduce cost.

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