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Plans and prices
Serverless SQL pool Priced on request Query data in Azure Data Lake without provisioning infrastructure · Pay for data processed by queries Read 20 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Dedicated SQL pool — pay as you go Priced on request Provisioned SQL data warehousing compute · Compute can be paused Read 20 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Dedicated SQL pool — 1-year reserved Priced on request Reserved capacity pricing for dedicated SQL pools Read 20 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Dedicated SQL pool — 3-year reserved Priced on request Reserved capacity pricing for dedicated SQL pools Read 20 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Apache Spark — Memory Optimized Priced on request Big data processing · Data engineering, preparation, and machine learning Read 20 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Apache Spark — GPU accelerated Priced on request Hardware-accelerated Apache Spark processing · Machine learning workloads Read 20 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Data Explorer compute Priced on request Interactive log and telemetry analytics · Time-series and semi-structured data querying Read 20 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Where Specifiction places it
- Query Engine Software#21 of 286.2
- Data Warehouse Software#20 of 266.2
- Analytics Databases#26 of 316.2
- OLAP Databases#26 of 306.1
- OLAP Software#28 of 326.2
- Columnar Databases#24 of 276.2
- Analytics Data#28 of 306.2
- Big Data Analytics Software#28 of 306.0
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