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Views 2,216 Comparisons 1,656 Reviews 5 Average Words per Review 535 Rating 7.8 | Views 3,145 Comparisons 2,626 Reviews 24 Average Words per Review 398 Rating 8.4 |
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Also Known As | |
Oracle DBaaS, Oracle Database Cloud | |
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Oracle | Microsoft |
Overview | |
Oracle Database Cloud Service combines the power of Oracle Database, with the unique capabilities of the Oracle Cloud. The service provides a secure, automated data management platform that leverages on demand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services via a simple web based user interface and RESTful API. Oracle Database Cloud Service provides elastic database services for development, test, and production environments of custom and packaged online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and mixed workload applications. It enables businesses to reap all Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) benefits including subscriptionbased, self-service access to reliable, scalable, and elastic cloud environments and accelerates time to value by simplifying the provisioning and administration of Oracle databases. | 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. |
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Learn more about Oracle Database as a Service | Learn more about SQL Azure |
Sample Customers | |
Solution-Soft, DX Marketing, Suredell and Partners, Frontiers, SettleOurEstate.com, Demand Analysis Ltd, endlich IT & Projekt Service OHG | adnymics GmbH, LG CNS, Centrebet, netfabb GmbH, MedPlast, Accelera Solutions, Sochi Organizing Committee, realzeit GmbH |
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Computer Software Company40% Comms Service Provider14% Media Company13% Retailer6% | Comms Service Provider18% Financial Services Firm18% Pharma/Biotech Company12% Computer Software Company12% Computer Software Company31% Comms Service Provider21% Media Company9% Financial Services Firm5% |
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Small Business43% Midsize Enterprise29% Large Enterprise29% | Small Business49% Midsize Enterprise14% Large Enterprise37% |
Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 6 reviews while SQL Azure is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 25 reviews. Oracle Database as a Service is rated 7.8, while SQL Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database as a Service writes "Good, reliable product for providing database as a service and helps manage the traffic on the network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "When we have a problem with a query we can trade information about what indexes we should create on tables". Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, Google Cloud Spanner and MongoDB Atlas, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud Spanner and ClearDB. See our Oracle Database as a Service vs. SQL Azure report.
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