Fabric was launched in 2023 as a unified cloud platform for data and analytics. Later that same year, mirroring was added, a feature that allows data from existing warehouses and databases to be added and managed without complex ETL processes or self-built data pipelines. With the latest update, organizations can replicate a snapshot of Oracle and BigQuery databases to OneLake, the lakehouse system within Fabric, where the copies remain synchronized with the source databases in near real time.
This introduces latency, complexity and what we call 'bloat,' explains Chad Meley, SVP of Marketing at StarTree. We're collapsing that serving and query layer into one piece of the puzzle, significantly reducing the bloat and simplifying that architecture.