Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is a Azure data warehouse that enables developers to send data from their Data Warehouse.

Difficulty can vary based on your data structure, data cleanliness and required destinations. Many users choose to simplify implementation by sending warehouse data through secure Azure data warehouse integration tools like RudderStack.

Pricing for Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics can vary depending on your use case and data volume. RudderStack offers transparent, volume-based event pricing. See RudderStack's pricing.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a petabyte-scale analytical data warehouse built on the foundation of SQL Server and runs as part of the Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform. This data warehouse separates storage and compute, billing for each separately.

Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service that uses Microsoft SQL Server Engine. On the other hand, Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a massively parallel processing (MPP) cloud-based, scale-out, relational database capable of processing massive data volumes.

Yes, Azure Synapse Analytics is a cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS). It offers scalable, limitless analytics service using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources on your Azure platform.

Data Warehouse collects and manages data from different sources and offers useful business insights by transforming data. It stores a huge amount of information designed for query and analysis. On the other hand, Data Lake is a storage repository that can store many structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It is a place to store every type of data in its native format with no fixed limits on account size or file. It offers a large amount of data quantity for increased analytical performance and native integration.