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Azure Data Lake Storage

Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Gen2

Gen1

Data Lake Storage Gen1 is an Hadoop file system which is compatibel with HDFS.
Data stored in Gen1 can easily be analyzed with Hadoop frameworks such as MapReduce or Hive.

Gen2

Gen2 merges Gen1 with Azure Blob Storage and extends Blob Storage with hierarchical namespaces.
Gen2 is the fundament to create data lakes in Azure.
See also the PowerShell cmdLet noun azDataLakeGen2Item

See also

Azure Storage
The Azure Service Data Lake Analytics
Excel menu Data -> Get & Transform Data -> Get Data -> From Azure -> From Azure Data Like Storage
Data in Data Lake Storage might be queried with U-SQL, which is the Big Data query language for Azure Data Lake Analytics.
Data lake
The DataVerse

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