topic Re: Fabric vs Azure Synapse Analytics in Data Engineering

Fabric vs Azure Synapse Analytics

tan_thiamhuat — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 02:17:56 GMT

is Fabric a replacement for Azure Synapse Analytics? If we are using Fabric, why do we still need Azure Synapse Analytics ?

Re: Fabric vs Azure Synapse Analytics

v-prasare — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:58:18 GMT

Hi tan_thiamhuat,

Thanks for actively participating in MS Fabric community support

Fabric runs on OneLake, a single data lake across the organization (similar to OneDrive for files), and provides a SaaS experience across all personas—data engineers, analysts, scientists, and business users.

learn more about difference between synapse and Fabric:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2105332/synapse-v-s-fabric

Use Synapse where deep integration, fine-tuned control, or legacy support is needed.
Use Fabric for modern, unified analytics with easier governance, low-code/no-code capabilities, and better M365 integration.

Thanks,

Prashanth Are

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Re: Fabric vs Azure Synapse Analytics

v-prasare — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 07:02:48 GMT

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Re: Fabric vs Azure Synapse Analytics

BhaveshPatel — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:54:09 GMT

We need Microsoft Fabric because of whole concept of Data Lakehouse aka Delta Lake. The first implementor of Delta Lake is from Databricks. For that, you have to understand the ACID Transactions in Delta Lake ( Think about that Database ).

For that, You have to start from scratch. Google has implemented open source Linux Systems. ( fs ls commands ) and later Databricks copied Google ( Apache Spark (Data Lake ) + Delta Lake ( Data Lakehouse )) and then Microsoft Fabric was copied by Databricks Delta Lake.

There was bugs in windows from Microsoft. ( Windows 11,13...). so Microsoft currently using Linux Systems which are prevalent in Google and Databricks. Google is the ultimate master of every thing from Databases or IoT Devices etc ....