Question

What are the key differences between Azure HDInsight and Azure Data Lake Analytics?

Answer 1

Following is the list of key differences between Azure HDInsight and Azure Data Lake Analytics:

Azure HDInsight	Azure Data Lake Analytics
Azure HDInsight is a Platform as a service	Azure Data Lake Analytics is Software as a service.
If you want to process the data in Azure HDInsight, you must configure the cluster with predefined nodes. You can also process the data by using languages like pig or hive.	In Azure Data Lake Analytics, we have to pass the queries written for data processing. The Azure Data Lake Analytics further creates compute nodes to process the data set.
Since the clusters are configured with Azure HDInsight, so we create and control them as we want. It also facilitates users to use Spark and Kafka without restrictions.	Azure Data Lake Analytics does not provide so much flexibility in configuration and customization, but Azure manages it automatically for its users. Additionally, it also facilitates users to use USQL taking advantage of dotnet for processing data.