Key features of Microsoft Fabric
What makes building a modern data platform powerful?
Microsoft Fabric is a powerful platform in many ways. Here are some of it’s key features, that makes it worth considering:
- Unified data lake via OneLake, storing data in open formats and enabling reuse across multiple analytical engines.
- Data Engineering (Spark), Data Warehouse, Data Factory for ingestion/transformation and Power BI for analytics.
- OneLake Catalog’s “govern” tab for monitoring governance posture, domain/workspace level security, sensitivity labels via Purview integration.
- Streaming data ingestion, event hubs, real‑time query and dashboards.
- Separation of compute and storage, automatic scaling, capacity SKUs, hybrid deployments etc.

