Azure SQL Database:
Source: Microsoft Azure Documentation, "What is Azure SQL Database?"
Reference: "Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) database engine... SQL Database is a relational data service..."
Azure Synapse Analytics (MPP):
Source: Microsoft Azure Documentation, "Dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) architecture in Azure Synapse Analytics"
Reference: "Dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) leverages a scale-out architecture to distribute computational processing of data across multiple nodes. The unit of scale is a Data Warehouse Unit (DWU), which represents an abstract bundle of compute resources... Dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) uses a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture..."
Azure Data Lake Analytics:
Source: Microsoft Azure Documentation, "What is Azure Data Lake Analytics?"
Reference: "Azure Data Lake Analytics is an on-demand analytics job service that simplifies big data... you can write queries to transform your data... The analytics service can handle jobs of any scale instantly..." This service was known for its massively parallel execution of U-SQL jobs.
Azure HDInsight:
Source: Microsoft Azure Documentation, "What is Azure HDInsight?"
Reference: "Azure HDInsight is a managed, full-spectrum, open-source analytics service in the cloud for enterprises. With HDInsight, you can use open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, Apache HBase, and Storm in your Azure environment."