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."
"One of the most valuable aspects is its seamless integration with Azure Data Factory."
"Its technical support team is good."
"This solution provides more comfort to the end-user compared to a normal SQL server."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that our customers do not have to manage the solution."
"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."
"The reason we moved to the cloud was for the convenience of not having any physical hardware to maintain."
"The most valuable aspect of SQL Azure is the SQL language itself. It's open and everybody can use it at my company. Also, we thought in the beginning that the response time would be inadequate, but it's actually decent. It's much better than expected. Then again, I'm not a programmer, but that's what I hear from our development team."
"What I like about SQL Azure is that it's similar to your on-premises SQL databases. It's not much different, so it's easy to start quickly on the solution if you know Microsoft SQL. I find its ease of use most valuable, and I also like that SQL Azure is also easily integrated with the Azure Cloud platform."
"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."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of better self-service tools."
"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."
"From a security perspective, although their features are decent, they can always be improved upon, updated, and refined to help protect clients better."
"It should have better profiling capabilities."
"The solution could improve by supporting more operating systems."
"Integration needs to be improved for this solution."
"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 Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and vCloud Air.
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