Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) is a highly scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud storage solution optimized for big data analytics workloads. It unifies the capabilities of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 with Azure Blob Storage, offering a hierarchical file system namespace on top…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2018
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- ADLS Gen2 was created to solve the challenge of efficiently storing, managing, and analyzing massive volumes of diverse data (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) for big data analytics platforms. Its predecessors struggled to combine the hierarchical file system semantics and granular security needed by big data frameworks like Hadoop and Spark with the cost-effectiveness, scalability, and broad feature set of general-purpose cloud object storage.
- Platforms
- Azure Cloud Platform
Related technologies
Notable users
- Data-intensive startups and mid-market companies on Azure.
- Fortune 500 enterprises across various sectors (e.g., finance, retail, healthcare) leveraging Azure for big data analytics.
- Microsoft (internal services)