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Azure Data Explorer Kafka Connector - Improved delivery guarantees, schema registry support, and Confluent certification
Azure Data Explorer Kafka connector now supports schema registry, additional converters, "at least once" delivery guarantees, improved and configurable retries, behavior on error, and is Confluent gold certified.
August 2020
Azure Data Explorer: Create a table with the new 1-click experience
Create a table easily and quickly using an intuitive 1-click wizard experience.
Azure Data Share in-place sharing for Azure Data Explorer now generally available
Share big data in-place easily, securely, and at no additional cost.
July 2020
Azure Data Explorer Streaming Ingestion is generally available
The Streaming Ingestion feature can be used when you need Near Real Time (less than 10 seconds) ingestion with small amounts of data and multiple tables.
Azure Data Explorer 1-click now supports mapping transformations
Azure Data Explorer 1-click now supports mapping transformations as part of the schema definition with the intuitive UX.
How to start with Azure Data Explorer—A new online course
A new online course that offers a comprehensive overview of data analytics with Azure Data Explorer is now available for free.
Azure Data Explorer – Allocate resources automatically for Azure Blob Storage data connection
Use the new automatic resource allocation feature to define a data connection from any Azure Storage to Azure Data Explorer database.
May 2020
Azure Data Explorer ingests up to 10,000 blobs with auto-suggestive schema definition
Learn how to ingest up to 10,000 blobs with auto-suggestive schema definition and continue ingestion for new blobs in only a few minutes.
April 2020
Azure Data Explorer – One-click ingestion support is now available
Azure Data Explorer now has support for one-click ingestion from containers, along with continuous ingestion for new blobs with intuitive schema definition.
March 2020
Azure Data Explorer extends geospatial functionality
Azure Data Explorer extends geospatial capabilities in order to cluster data and render it.
One hundred and one services at FedRAMP High as Azure Government continues expanding capacity
Twenty one new services added to FedRAMP High ATO, delivering on continued commitment to accelerating compliance for government customers
Azure Data Explorer deployment into Azure Virtual Networks now generally available
Deployment of an Azure Data Explorer into a virtual network is now generally available. Use this feature to isolate the network traffic and limit the attack surface for Azure Data Explorer and their corresponding communications.
May 2019
Public preview of Azure Data Explorer capabilities to integrate deeper with ADLS Gen 2
At Build, Azure Data Explorer will preview the capability for enterprises to query data from ADLS Gen 2 without ingesting data
Public preview of tighter integration of Azure Data Explorer with Python and Spark
Spark connector for Azure Data Explorer and ability to run inline Python and R as part of the query.
February 2019
General availability: Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer is a fast, fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis on large volumes of data streaming from applications, websites, IoT devices and more. It brings together a highly performant and scalable cloud database service with an intuitive query language to deliver near-instant insights.
September 2018
Azure Data Explorer
Perform ad-hoc queries on terabytes of data with Azure Data Explorer – a lightning-fast indexing and querying service for data exploration. Use Azure Data Explorer for analytics of log and telemetry data from websites, applications and IoT devices.
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