Both Databricks and Azure Synapse process data at scale, but with different philosophies. The choice depends on the team's context.
What weighs on the decision
Databricks shines in data engineering and data science with Spark and Delta Lake, in a multi-cloud ecosystem. Synapse integrates natively into the Azure ecosystem and the traditional SQL experience.
For many organizations, Microsoft Fabric now emerges as a synthesis of the two approaches.
