We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 on Cloud and SQL Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."The reliability is the most valuable feature. It is also user-friendly."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The solution has become easier to use over time and it's also reasonably priced."
"The solution is efficient and easy to use."
"The solution is quire more stable than other tools."
"SQL Azure is good with transactional systems."
"Coding does not require much effort."
"The reason we moved to the cloud was for the convenience of not having any physical hardware to maintain."
"The best thing about the solution is that it is tightly integrated with Azure Functions and Azure App Service, making it easy to deploy to the cloud."
"I would give their support a ten if they had more tutorials available."
"I was using a user list for connecting a program in OTF for getting information. The connection in SQL Azure can improve by being easier because at the moment I have to use private certificates for user authentication. I had to do additional configuration to have the connections."
"We haven't had any major issues that have prevented us from doing stuff fundamentally. For its implementation, sometimes, it is complicated to understand what your needs are. It would be good to have a few use cases that provide different cloud variations that match on-premise installations and show how they can be moved to the cloud a bit better."
"Its price could be better. It is expensive. I am not sure if Microsoft Master Data Services is included in this. If not, Master Data Services can be integrated with Azure SQL. I have only used Master Data Services on-premises."
"What would make SQL Azure better is users having the capability of managing the database solution from the cloud, instead of having to do it from an actual machine because currently, database management via SQL Azure is done on a virtual machine or a PC. The solution should have the data functionality of managing SQL databases inside the cloud."
"One of the nice features in Microsoft SQL Server is the SQL Server CLR, which we sometimes need to use to protect our procedures using C# or CLR. This is not available in the SQL Azure database."
"In terms of support, they don't give much support."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Lack of flexibility for developers in terms of performance assistance."
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IBM Db2 on Cloud is ranked 12th in Database as a Service while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. IBM Db2 on Cloud is rated 9.0, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 on Cloud writes "Reliable and user-friendly ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". IBM Db2 on Cloud is most compared with Google Cloud SQL and Amazon RDS, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and vCloud Air.
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