Synapse V/s Fabric: A feature comparision.

Microsoft has been encouraging developers to switch to Fabric for quite some time now. It has started to discontinue previous versions of technology for Fabric like Power BI Capacity has already been replaced by Fabric capacity.Fabric combines Power BI, Data Factory, and the Data Lake, on a new generation of the Synapse data infrastructure. Delivered as a unified SaaS offering, it aims to reduce cost and time to value. In this vein, fabric is also positioned to be a successor of  Azure Synapse Analytics. But it is still not ready to completely take over it, since there is no automatic upgrade path for workloads and Migrating to Fabric has some risk and cost barriers. Synapse is a PaaS, which gives you more management capabilities which can be burden especially with the dispersed pricing plan.  Below is the comparison with Fabric for each synapse feature:

Based on the above comparision, you can choose on whether to keep the developement in synapse or fabric. It is inevitable that synapse will be replaced by Fabric in the future. Also, the migration process is also quite straightforward. 

All it comes down to the features that you will use in your project and cost of ownership (Fabric has capacity whereas Synapse has pay per use).

Fabric uses Capacity Units just like Power BI PPC. P1 = F64 which in many cases is more than enough for many projects in terms of capacity units. Fabric also provides atleast 1 TB of onelake storage with all plans. You can check the pricing plan for fabric here.

If the scope of project is not that high then synapse is definetly a economical option.

You can check the pricing plan for synapse here.

Reference:

https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en/blog/microsoft-fabric-explained-for-existing-synapse-users/

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