Understanding Azure Data Lake Store

When considering your storage solution, you have to take into account the amount of data you want to store. Depending on your answer, you may choose a different option from services available in Azure—Azure Storage, Azure SQL, or Azure Cosmos DB. There is also a variety of databases available as images for VMs (such as Cassandra or MongoDB); the ecosystem is quite rich so everyone can find what they are looking for. The problem arises when you do not have an upper limit for the amount of data stored or, considering the characteristics of today's applications, that amount grows so rapidly that there is no possibility to declare a safe limit, which we will never hit. For those kinds of scenario, there is a separate kind of storage named Data Lakes. They allow you to store data in its natural format, so it does not imply any kind of...