We performed a comparison between Redis 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."The most valuable features of Redis are its ease of use and speed. It does not have access to the disc and it is fast."
"It makes operations more efficient. The information processing is very fast, and very responsive. It's all about the technology."
"The in-memory data makes it fast."
"The online interface is very fast and easy to use."
"The solution's technical support team is good...The solution's initial setup process was straightforward."
"I use Redis mostly to cache repeated data that is required."
"Redis is a simple, powerful, and fast solution."
"The product offers fast access to my database."
"The scalability and simple management of the infrastructure are the most valuable features."
"The data availability and speed are impressive, especially compared to legacy systems. The loading speeds are much faster on Azure SQL."
"The main advantage of it is that there is no infrastructure cost. We don't have to host it here. So, there is no infrastructure cost."
"What is really helpful about the Azure SQL is that when we have a problem with our sound queries, we can trade information about what indexes we should create on tables. It's really helpful for me and also for developers."
"I prefer using Microsoft SQL Server because I like the experience and the way Microsoft handles the query tuning and security."
"The most valuable feature is PolyBase."
"The most valuable feature from the infra point of view is you don't have to keep any on-prem infrastructure, it is available all the time whenever you want to access it."
"Very easy to use on any platform and works well."
"If we use a lot of data, it will eventually cost us a lot."
"Sometimes, we use Redis as a cluster, and the clusters can sometimes suffer some issues and bring some downtime to your application."
"In future releases, I would like Redis to provide its users with an option like schema validation. Currently, the solution lacks to offer such functionality."
"The tool should improve by increasing its size limits and handling dynamic data better. We use the client ID or associate it with a key for static content. The solution will not be easy for a beginner. Unless you understand SQL data, it will be difficult to understand and use Redis. It also needs to be user-friendly."
"The initial setup took some time as our technical team needed to familiarize themselves with Redis."
"There is a lack of documentation on the scalability of the solution."
"The only thing is the lack of a GUI application. There was a time when we needed to resolve an issue in production. If we had a GUI, it would have been easier."
"I would prefer it if there was more information available about Redis. That would make it easier for new beginners. Currently, there is a lack of resources."
"It's not a feature, but the solution only offers a certain amount of memory and that's limiting. The scalability should be extended to more than two terabytes."
"It is a little bit expensive for us. They can improve the price. It would also be very helpful if they can offer some free trial."
"There is probably more functionality in our on-prem SQL Server than SQL Azure."
"There is room for improvement regarding the pricing structure."
"It can have more dashboards for monitoring, which would naturally help a lot. Other than that, everything is okay."
"In terms of support, they don't give much support."
"If the product could support applications requiring an SQL server for installation, by using SQL Azure as a backend, that would be useful."
"If we need to deploy data management or services with SQL Azure we need InterSecure."
Redis is ranked 6th in Database as a Service with 11 reviews while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. Redis is rated 8.4, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Redis writes "Enables efficient caching and helps users fetch and save data quickly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". Redis is most compared with Amazon SQS, Google Cloud Memorystore, Chroma, ActiveMQ and Faiss, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and Google Cloud Spanner. See our Redis vs. SQL Azure report.
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