Innovate faster with Azure data services
Wherever your data is, Microsoft Azure will help you unlock its potential. Build intelligent apps faster using the tools and technologies of your choice and artificial intelligence (AI) that’s already built-in.
Easily build and deploy anywhere
Use your team’s existing skillsets and tools you know and love to build intelligent apps and deploy without a change in code. Build once, deploy anywhere: in the cloud, on premises, and to edge devices, with the confidence of global distribution to more data centers than any other provider.
Create an impact using an open platform
Choose your favorite technologies, including open source. Azure supports a range of deployment options, popular stacks and languages, and a comprehensive set of data engines. Capitalize on this flexibility, plus the performance, scale, and security delivered by Microsoft technologies to build apps for any scenario.
Develop apps with built-in intelligence
Building intelligent apps using Azure is easy, because no other platform brings native AI to your data wherever it lives and in the languages you use. Take advantage of a rich set of cognitive APIs to easily build new experiences into your apps for human-like intelligence.
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A fully managed relational database that provisions quickly, scales on the fly, and includes built-in intelligence and security
A fully managed, scalable MySQL relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost
A fully managed, scalable PostgreSQL relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost
A globally distributed multi-model database with industry leading performance and financially backed SLAs
A fully managed, elastic data warehouse with security at every level of scale at no extra cost
Help migrating your databases to the cloud with no application code changes
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A fully managed cloud Spark and Hadoop service backed by 99.9% SLA for your enterprise
A fully managed cloud service that enables you to easily build, deploy, and share predictive analytics solutions
An on-demand, real-time stream processing service with enterprise-grade security, auditing, and support
A no-limits data lake built to support massively parallel analytics
A fully managed on-demand pay-per-job analytics service with enterprise-grade security, auditing, and support
An enterprise-wide metadata catalog that makes data asset discovery simple
A data integration service to orchestrate and automate data movement and transformation
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Databases
SQL Database
Built for developers, SQL Database is a relational database management system with enterprise-class availability, scalability, and security, and built-in intelligence capable of learning app patterns, that can be accessed from anywhere in the world.
Azure Cosmos DB
With a guarantee of single-digit-millisecond latencies at the 99th percentile anywhere in the world, this multi-model database service offers turnkey global distribution across any number of Azure regions by transparently scaling and replicating your data to wherever your users are.
SQL Data Warehouse
Scale compute and storage independently with this SQL-based, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that’s highly elastic and enables you to set up in minutes and scale capacity in seconds.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Stand up a PostgreSQL database in minutes and scale on the fly—this fully managed database service for app development and deployment also gives you high-availability, security, and recovery at no extra cost.
Azure Database for MySQL
Quickly stand up a MySQL database and scale on the fly with this fully managed database service for app development and deployment that includes high-availability, security, and recovery at no extra cost.
Analytics
HDInsight
A fully managed cloud Spark and Hadoop service, HDInsight provides open source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and Microsoft R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA.
Machine Learning
Easily build, deploy, and manage predictive analytics solutions with this fully managed cloud service and deploy your model into production as a web service in minutes that can be called from any device, anywhere.
Data Factory
Compose and manage data services at scale with this globally deployed data movement service in the cloud that connects to on-premises and cloud data sources.
Stream Analytics
Develop and run massively parallel real-time analytics on multiple streams of data with this analytics service that helps uncover real-time insights from devices, sensors, infrastructure, and applications
Data Catalog
Spend less time looking for data and more time getting value from it with this fully managed cloud service that lets you register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume your enterprise data sources.
Data Lake Store
Built to the open HDFS standard, this is a no-limits cloud data lake for your enterprise’s unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data that’s massively scalable and secured, and allows you to run massively parallel analytics.
Data Lake Analytics
Develop and run massively parallel data transformation and processing programs in U-SQL, R, Python, and Microsoft .NET over petabytes of data with this on-demand service that provides a simple, scalable way to analyze big data—in seconds.
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Azure Developer Tools
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