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  • "We have a three-year contract. The cost was somewhere around $70-80,000 for the original deployment, which was about two years ago"
  • "I'm not sure what the exact price is, but it's a moderate amount. It's not too expensive."
  • "The licensing for this solution is based on subscription."
  • "We pay less than $1000 monthly in licensing fees. There are no additional costs."
  • "It is expensive for us. We are looking for something less expensive and thinking of migrating the whole system."
  • "It is reasonable."
  • "It is quite expensive. I would definitely recommend not using the pay-as-you-go model because this will just mean all your money will go to Microsoft. So, really make sure to control resource usage as much as possible."
  • "It's reasonably priced and when you compare it with other products in the cloud environment, it's cheaper."

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    Ranking
    19th
    out of 23 in Database as a Service
    Views
    74
    Comparisons
    43
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    Average Words per Review
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    2nd
    out of 23 in Database as a Service
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    11,317
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    5,249
    Reviews
    35
    Average Words per Review
    383
    Rating
    8.5
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    ClearDB
    Microsoft
    Overview
    ClearDB is a highly available MySQL database-as-a-service that runs in multiple cloud computing as well as in hybrid cloud/datacenter environments. It’s designed to eliminate the need to manage your own MySQL database. ClearDB provides specialized, highly available MySQL database clusters that are built around the premise of failure to ensure that your database is always online and fully available, 24/7. ClearDB uses standard MySQL technology, with a layered software stack “wrapped around” to provide automatic, intelligent support so that you can focus on your application, not managing you database.
    Microsoft Azure SQL Database is a relational database-as-a-service that delivers predictable performance, scalability, business continuity, data protection, and near-zero administration to cloud developers and solution architects. This is the deep technical library for Azure SQL Database.
    Sample Customers
    University of New South Wales, Jack Russell Software Co, Microsoft, salesforce.com, GymPact, Resume Companion LLC
    adnymics GmbH, LG CNS, Centrebet, netfabb GmbH, MedPlast, Accelera Solutions, Sochi Organizing Committee, realzeit GmbH
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    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization61%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Financial Services Firm5%
    Retailer4%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business48%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise39%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise64%
    Large Enterprise25%
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    ClearDB is ranked 19th in Database as a Service while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. ClearDB is rated 0.0, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". ClearDB is most compared with , whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and IBM Db2 on Cloud.

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