Ask HN: Any Experience with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse?

Posted by rawgabbit on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:29PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have a new colleague is all excited about Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse [1].(Store data in parquet/delta files and use PySpark to transform data and serve them up using Fabric). I appreciate any thoughts or comments.

I am mostly concerned about PySpark and can't wrap my head around the pricing model. Similarly, if we use it to power Tableau or PowerBi, I can't figure out the pricing model. With Snowflake, which I am more familiar with, I can get a good price estimate. Thanks in advance.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-engineering/tutorial-lakehouse-introduction

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Re:Ask HN: Any Experience with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse? by coding123 on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:52PM (#38072044)

I am wondering the same lately. Apparently spark is becoming "spark as a service" on top of parquet + index = lakehouse?

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Re:Ask HN: Any Experience with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse? by ianceicys on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:58PM (#38072123)

Pricing - "Actual pricing may vary depending on the type of agreement entered into with Microsoft, date of purchase, and the currency exchange rate."

From the azure pricing calculator - contact an Azure sales specialist for more information on pricing or to request a price quote.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/contact/pricing/#contact-s...

Pick up the phone and you'll find an INCREDIBLY competitive price quote for Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse, as pricing is subject to change monthly/daily/hourly.

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