Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud based data warehouse that enables in creating and delivering a data warehouse. Azure Data Warehouse is capable of processing large volumes of relational and non-relational data. It provides SQL data warehouse capabilities on top of a cloud computing platform.

Is Azure SQL database a data warehouse?

Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a service using the Microsoft SQL Server Engine (more); Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a massively parallel processing (MPP) cloud-based, scale-out, relational database capable of processing massive volumes of data (more);

What type of system is Azure SQL data warehouse?

Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) is a cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering from Microsoft. It is a large-scale, distributed, MPP (massively parallel processing) relational database technology in the same class of competitors as Amazon Redshift or Snowflake.