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It's Microsoft, their names are supposed to be confusing.
by 2_listerine_pls 9y ago
It's Microsoft, their names are supposed to be confusing.
- greggyb 9y agoTheir parallelized data warehousing solution: Azure Data Warehouse. Their document store database: Azure DocumentDB. Their large scale structured+unstructured data storage and analysis (frequently referred to as a data lake): Azure Data Lake Storage... AND Azure Data Lake Analytics. Let's talk about the precise differences and co-dependencies between these two. Their offering to expose functions as an API: Azure Functions. Their RDBMS, a product that runs as a server and is queried with the language, SQL (what might, in another world, be called a SQL server): SQL Server. Their cloud version of the same: Azure SQL DB. Their only well named product, you ask? Their cloud platform named Azure, which is the color of a blue sky. Well played, Microsoft. tl;dr I agree with you.
- statictype 9y agoAll those names are actually pretty clear and not confusing at all. Boring and uninspired - yes - but certainly not confusing. No different from MapKit and WebKit and ARKit and HomeKit and HealthKit
- greggyb 9y agoADLS and ADLA do definitely inspire confusion, but your point is well-taken.