Azure Data Factory Insights

What is Azure Data Factory?

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a cloud-based data integration service that allows you to create data-driven workflows for orchestrating and automating data movement and data transformation at scale. It is commonly used for building ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) pipelines to ingest data from various sources, transform it, and load it into data warehouses or data lakes for analytics and reporting.

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What other technologies are related to Azure Data Factory?

Azure Data Factory Competitor Technologies

Azure Synapse

Azure Synapse offers similar data integration and ETL/ELT capabilities as Azure Data Factory, making it a direct competitor. It combines data warehousing and big data analytics into a single service.

mentioned alongside Azure Data Factory in 60% (32.7k) of relevant job posts

Microsoft SSIS

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration platform that provides ETL capabilities. It is a competitor to Azure Data Factory, particularly for on-premises or hybrid scenarios. Azure Data Factory can run SSIS packages.

mentioned alongside Azure Data Factory in 16% (17.4k) of relevant job posts

Synapse Analytics

Synapse Analytics provides data integration capabilities alongside data warehousing and big data analytics, directly competing with ADF.

mentioned alongside Azure Data Factory in 75% (3.1k) of relevant job posts

Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric includes Data Factory, but also offers end-to-end analytics, data warehousing, and real-time analytics, making it a broader, competing solution.

mentioned alongside Azure Data Factory in 33% (5.8k) of relevant job posts

Azure Stream Analytics

Azure Stream Analytics is a real-time analytics service for streaming data. While Data Factory has some stream processing, ASA is its direct competitor.

mentioned alongside Azure Data Factory in 72% (2.4k) of relevant job posts

Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps provides workflow automation capabilities, which overlap with some of the orchestration features of Azure Data Factory.

mentioned alongside Azure Data Factory in 27% (5k) of relevant job posts

Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing and analytics platform that offers similar data integration features to Azure Data Factory, especially in ELT scenarios.

mentioned alongside Azure Data Factory in 7% (15.7k) of relevant job posts

Azure Data Factory Complementary Technologies

Azure Data Lake

Azure Data Lake Storage is a scalable data lake service for big data analytics. It is often used as a source or sink in Azure Data Factory pipelines.

mentioned alongside Azure Data Factory in 66% (25k) of relevant job posts

Databricks

Databricks is an Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for the Azure cloud. Azure Data Factory can orchestrate Databricks notebooks and jobs.

mentioned alongside Azure Data Factory in 27% (55.6k) of relevant job posts

Azure SQL

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed SQL Server database engine in the cloud. It can be used as a source or sink in Azure Data Factory pipelines.

mentioned alongside Azure Data Factory in 36% (21.6k) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Azure Data Factory?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Azure Data Factory

Orgs mentioning Azure Data Factory

Engineer

Software Engineer

Data Engineer

14% (38.7k) job posts

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Data, Analytics & Machine Learning

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10% of Data Infrastructure Migration projects involve Azure Data Factory

Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

To develop a scalable cloud data warehouse that powers SQL analytics in Azure compute, utilizing technologies such as Azure Data Lake and Microsoft Fabric.

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Siemens

IT Solution Expert for SAP HCM Integration (m/f/d)

To integrate Workday with multiple SAP HCM systems using integration platforms like ShapeIn to streamline HR processes.

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Amazon

Applied Scientist, Q Developer Code Agent Science

Developing services that leverage generative AI and foundation models to improve the experience of developers using AWS tools and services.

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Walmart

(USA) Senior Manager, Automation Engineering - Data Engineer

To develop scalable data architectures and real-time data pipelines using technologies like Apache Airflow, Google Cloud Platform, and BigQuery to support AI/ML analytics.

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