title: Azure Data Lake Store exposed via OData
body: <p>Is it possible to expose an Azure Data Lake Store via OData? The main goal is consume this service in Salesforce (via Salesforce Connect).</p>
  
  <p>If so, should it take place through Azure Data Factory?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>A little bit more of context:</p>
  
  <p>We have historical data stored in Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) that we want to expose via OData (to be visualised in Salesforce via Salesforce Connect / External objects). After digging into the issue and potential solutions, we don't think ADLS is the right service to be used in this particular case. Instead, we'll might need to configure a Data Factory pipeline to copy the data we are interested in to a SQL Database and read the data from there via a simple ASP.Net application using Entity Data Model and WCF Data Services Entity Framework Provider (got some insights from <a href="https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/developer-relations/2015/03/accessing-sql-server-azure-database-lightning-connect.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this website</a>).</p>