If you're building a data platform on Azure in 2026, you're going to be asked this question: Azure Databricks or Microsoft Fabric? Both run on Delta Lake, both integrate with ADLS Gen2, both have Spark, and both promise to be your unified data platform. The overlap is real and the marketing doesn't help.
This post is an honest breakdown of where each genuinely excels, where they overlap, and how to decide without getting lost in feature comparison tables.
Architecture Comparison
Decision Flow
Detailed Capability Comparison
