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."Oracle has helped our organization by being a reliable solution that is stable with zero crashes. The differentiation between Oracle's database and other databases is that Oracle needs more attention. It's not a click here, click there solution, it needs more time put in, but once you do that, it's ready to go and you can forget about it."
"It is a good solution and has a large community."
"We value the single data run that the solution provides."
"We are using Oracle Database as a Service mainly for pulling out audit reports."
"As a database administrator, it has a lot of features to help you manage the database and the backup."
"Oracle Database as a Service is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into other Oracle applications."
"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 product is quite stable. The performance is great and it's reliable."
"Because the solution is cloud-based it's highly manageable, it makes maintenance of logs, space, storage and backups much easier compared to a traditional SQL server installation."
"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."
"The automated scalability feature of SQL Azure has proven to be highly beneficial, particularly when deployed in the cloud."
"In terms of stability, because Microsoft is the underlying technology, they are much more stable than say Oracle. Since 2014 they did a great job in offering stability, performance and high visibility on the solution, especially in comparison to the other competitors."
"The initial setup is very easy. It's extremely straightforward."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"SQL Azure is good with transactional systems."
"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."
"The solution uses a large amount of CPU space, which could be improved."
"The solution's pricing could be less expensive."
"I would like to improve the stability of the Oracle database."
"We'd like to see better support for non-structured data and in-memory load."
"There is room for improvement in terms of flexibility."
"The licensing model is complicated and should be simplified."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"They should include more accessible functions for image tooling."
"In terms of support, they don't give much support."
"They should also simplify the security in Azure. We are using the cloud as a platform, so there is no physical infrastructure. We're using Azure components like databases and servers to create an application. Integrating those components in terms of permissions and security is challenging for us. Maybe there is a lack of knowledge on our side, but it's not straightforward."
"I would like to see integration with Snowflake."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The configuration is the area that is most cumbersome."
"Their availability in the Middle East and Asia regions needs to improve."
"If we need to deploy data management or services with SQL Azure we need InterSecure."
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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