We performed a comparison between Oracle Database as a Service and SQL Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the tool’s database services. I like the system’s performance, replication, active data, etc. which are all good."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is its use as a provisioning database."
"You can be up and running the same day."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are the power, security, and performance."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the stopwatch."
"Scalability is very easy. If you want to, you can make it onto two or three servers, racks, or whatever you want. It's easy."
"The solution is stable."
"It is a product brought to you by a company that concentrates only on database solutions, so it is the best at what it does."
"The stability is good."
"The backup solution in Azure is great, the firewall settings in SQL are very easy to use and work very well. Additionally, the turning process is very good and has improved the SQL services and queries."
"The most useful feature of Azure SQL is the queries for manipulating the data, such as the tables and the storage processors."
"We have come from hosting on-premise for customers, or they've done it themselves with SQL. We've now taken a cloud offering for the equivalent services of standard database management and the inbuilt backup and restore offerings. The scalability is probably the biggest feature that we are benefiting from by being in the cloud."
"SQL is a simpler database. We use it more than other databases."
"The reason we moved to the cloud was for the convenience of not having any physical hardware to maintain."
"Azure Portal is most valuable."
"The scalability and simple management of the infrastructure are the most valuable features."
"The performance needs improvement."
"Oracle DBaaS could be compatible with more platforms."
"The solution is not very stable."
"The licensing model is complicated and should be simplified."
"Some of the technical features could be improved. They have a problem with some of the object types. I think this is one of the issues which is needed to be improved."
"One of the things that I have noticed is that there are some services that will give you a hard time during implementation if you are looking at the documentation of Oracle. Sometimes the documentation information is quite limited. It's an aspect of the solution they could improve."
"I would like to see improvements in the license cost. The solution is subscription-based for PaaS services. You need to buy your own authorized license."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"Azure SQL can improve by adding more machine learning features like other databases, such as Cassandra or Cosmos DB."
"I feel that the price is high and it could be reduced."
"The product could be more competitive in terms of features, security, and scalability."
"The pricing is very high."
"Lacking in technical documentation."
"I would like to the solutions scalability to be improved."
"The configuration is the area that is most cumbersome."
"It can have more dashboards for monitoring, which would naturally help a lot. Other than that, everything is okay."
Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 63 reviews while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. Oracle Database as a Service is rated 8.6, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Database as a Service writes "Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with Amazon RDS, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud Spanner and IBM Db2 on Cloud. See our Oracle Database as a Service vs. SQL Azure report.
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