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."Redis is a simple, powerful, and fast solution."
"The product offers fast access to my database."
"The online interface is very fast and easy to use."
"The in-memory data makes it fast."
"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."
"The solution's technical support team is good...The solution's initial setup process was straightforward."
"It makes operations more efficient. The information processing is very fast, and very responsive. It's all about the technology."
"I prefer using Microsoft SQL Server because I like the experience and the way Microsoft handles the query tuning and security."
"Emergency mode is quite useful."
"The initial setup is very easy. It's extremely straightforward."
"The data availability and speed are impressive, especially compared to legacy systems. The loading speeds are much faster on Azure SQL."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that our customers do not have to manage the solution."
"The most valuable aspects of this solution are the integration with the darknet stack especially Microsoft, table groups, supports major capability requirements, and SQL always-on feature."
"It is very fast in replicating the data from one database to another. We do some extractions from multiple databases to a target database that we use for visualization. It has a good speed."
"The development of clusters could improve. Additionally, it would be helpful if it was integrated with Amazon AWS or Google Cloud."
"Sometimes, we use Redis as a cluster, and the clusters can sometimes suffer some issues and bring some downtime to your application."
"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."
"There is a lack of documentation on the scalability of the solution."
"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."
"The initial setup took some time as our technical team needed to familiarize themselves with Redis."
"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."
"Azure SQL can improve by adding more machine learning features like other databases, such as Cassandra or Cosmos DB."
"I need something which is in one place so I can automate the Azure data factory, but it's a different tool. It's not easy and in one place, so I can't switch to the other tool and do something there, automate everything there in the on-prem infrastructure, and then have everything in the agent. I can just pick one packet and use it. However, I want to be able to click it and run it."
"I would like to the solutions scalability to be improved."
"It would help if the solution was more secure."
"Scalability is an issue because we can't upgrade to new versions due to hardware limitations."
"Support isn't that great. They need to work on this aspect of their service. It can be challenging to reach them."
"Lacks some tools on the SQL Server for data virtualization."
"Lack of flexibility for developers in terms of performance assistance."
Redis is ranked 7th in Database as a Service with 7 reviews while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. Redis is rated 8.8, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Redis writes "A solution that can benefit both user and customer-facing applications while effectively preventing potential lag in the user-facing application". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". Redis is most compared with Google Cloud Memorystore, Amazon SQS, ActiveMQ, Chroma and Faiss, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and Google Cloud Spanner. See our Redis vs. SQL Azure report.
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