Azure Data Lake Store is a storage repository for big data workloads, where you can store raw data. A data lake is a container where you can store all kinds of data, such as structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Data is still unprocessed when it is added to the data lake. This is different from a data warehouse, where you store structured and processed data.
Azure Data Lake Store is built for Hadoop, which is available from the HDInsight cluster in Azure. It uses the Hadoop filesystem to store the data. Applications call the WebHDFS-compatible REST APIs to add data to the filesystem. It offers unlimited storage, and data can be analyzed using Hadoop analytic frameworks such as MapReduce or Hive. Azure ...
