What is Azure Data Explorer?

In this article we will cover:

• What is Azure Data Explorer?
• What makes Azure Data Explorer Unique?
• Azure Data Explorer General Pattern.
• Resources.

What is Azure Data Explorer?

Azure Data Explorer is very much ideal for analyzing diverse data from any data source, such as any applications, IoT devices, and more. The data obtained can be used by the user for monitoring, reporting, or additional analytics capabilities.

It is a fast, scalable data exploration service for log and very much telemetry data. It helps you to collect, store, and analyze data easily.

What makes Azure Data Explorer Unique?

Well, Azure Data Explorer is unique in many ways, such as:

• It enables the ability to build and deploy exactly what the user needs by combining with other services to supply an encompassing, and interactive data analytics solution.
• It is optimized for high-performance data analysis and analytics.
• It supports the analysis of high volumes of structured and unstructured data.
• It offers innovative query language.
• It performs quickly to terabytes of data.

Azure Data Explorer General Pattern

Azure Data Explorer generally follows the following pattern:

• Create DataBase
• Ingest Data
• Query DataBase

Create DataBase: Create a cluster, followed by creating one or more databases in that cluster.

Ingest Data: Load the data into databases tabes.

Query DataBase: The service is available in Azure Portal as a stand-alone application to run retrieve and share queries and results.

Resources:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/create-cluster-database-portal

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/ingest-data-event-hub

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/web-query-data