-werners-
Esteemed Contributor III

the benefit is you only use a single system instead of one.  But that's about it IMO.
Data Factory is cheaper and works great for ingest purposes. It has a lot of connectors and works basically serverless.
If Databricks would offer such a product (serverless cheap ingest with lots of connectors), I wouldn't hesitate and kick ADF out.
But for now we keep on using it.

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