The Most Powerful Azure Service You’ve Never Heard Of
summary
A demo of Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) shows columnar storage, heavy compression and a distributed SSD architecture that returns aggregates over 40 billion rows in 0.3s, ingests ~112 PB/day, and auto-scales/auto-pauses for cost control. Benchmarks claim it outperforms BigQuery and Snowflake on concurrency and latency. Integrations include Synapse and Power BI live queries, KQL explain can generate T‑SQL equivalents, and a free trial virtual cluster is available to test real datasets and ingestion patterns.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to CXP
- 1:44Data explosion and Azure Data Explorer
- 10:08Azure Data Explorer demo
- 27:59Q&A on triple plays and tools
- 31:10Comparison with Synapse and Power BI
- 33:48Use cases and scalability
- 36:59Prizes and next steps
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