What is the difference between SQL database and SQL data warehouse?

What is the difference between a SQL database and a data warehouse?

What are the differences between a database and a data warehouse? A database is any collection of data organized for storage, accessibility, and retrieval. A data warehouse is a type of database the integrates copies of transaction data from disparate source systems and provisions them for analytical use.

Is SQL database a data warehouse?

Well, it is the SQL Server Data Warehouse feature in the cloud. SQL Server Data Warehouse exists on-premises as a feature of SQL Server. In Azure, it is a dedicated service that allows you to build a data warehouse that can store massive amounts of data, scale up and down, and is fully managed.

What is the difference between Azure SQL database and Azure SQL data warehouse?

Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a service using the Microsoft SQL Server Engine (more); Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a massively parallel processing (MPP) cloud-based, scale-out, relational database capable of processing massive volumes of data (more);

What is a SQL data warehouse?

SQL Data Warehouse stores data in relational tables using columnar storage which reduces the data storage costs, and improves query performance. SQL Data Warehouse leverages a scale-out architecture to distribute computational processing of data across multiple nodes.