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 solution's performance and ease of development."
"The Oracle Multitenant feature of 12c is awesome. This feature enables us to consolidate disparate databases under one container database and eases manageability of the databases. It also allows us to scale."
"In terms of features, I find Automated Storage Management (ASM) and Data Guard most helpful for improving data security and reliability."
"The initial setup is not too difficult, and on a scale from one to ten with one being the most difficult and ten being the easiest, I'd rate it at eight. The initial deployment can be done in an hour."
"The solution is stable."
"I would rate this solution as an eight out of ten because the stability and performance are good and the solution does not need to be maintained a lot."
"I like the tool’s database services. I like the system’s performance, replication, active data, etc. which are all good."
"I like the solution’s performance and real application concepts."
"They have good documentation. It's concentrated information."
"The most valuable feature of SQL Azure is centralized authentication because I'm using the domain, user name, and password, for Microsoft 365 account with multifactor authentication and the security has been working well."
"The solution is quire more stable than other tools."
"It's easy to use in terms of their portal, which is very nicely organized."
"The on-premise SQL Server licenses can be used since it is on Azure, so it's a significant savings for the customers."
"The stability is good and the performance is fantastic. Even when we try to do an inquiry into issues we can do it easily."
"The administration console in Azure, all in one is the most valuable feature."
"The stability is good."
"The solution’s price could be reduced."
"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."
"When migrating to a different instance, the internal machine learning is lost."
"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."
"Earlier, the interface was continuously changing. Features you used would be moved somewhere else, so it was a little challenging to navigate, but now I think it's stable."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by having ETL for larger data."
"The interface can be difficult and there may be so many features that users and even vendors are unaware that they exist."
"Debugging this solution is challenging."
"Azure SQL can improve by adding more machine learning features like other databases, such as Cassandra or Cosmos DB."
"Scalability is an issue because we can't upgrade to new versions due to hardware limitations."
"SQL Azure could improve by adding more features."
"The solution lacks feedback tools."
"The initial setup is complex."
"If it's a transitional system, there is a lot of reporting, so the solution becomes a bit slow when it's churning out tons of data, but it's good for a mid-sized application"
"The solution can be improved by reducing the constraints available."
"I would like to see the cloud connectivity environment improved."
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 Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, 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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