IoT end-to-end solutions and getting real-time insights

Azure Cosmos DB analytical store allows us to perform near real-time analytics on operational data. It has both transactional and analytical stores. Before Synapse was introduced, it was really hard to get real-time analytics out of Cosmos DB. Before the release of Synapse, we needed to extract and load data in a separate analytics store to build real-time dashboards.

Now, with the introduction of Azure Synapse Link, we can integrate Cosmos DB with Synapse Analytics, serverless SQL pools, and Spark pools, thus leading the way for data analysts to analyze real-time data. Using Spark pools, Synapse, and serverless SQL, BI engineers can create real-time dashboards using Power BI. Data scientists can now use the Cosmos DB analytical store to preprocess data and create models using a Synapse Spark pool and derive critical business insights from data without disturbing the transactional store of Azure Cosmos DB.

The IoT has increased...