We performed a comparison between Amazon Redshift and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Amazon Redshift comes out on top in this comparison. It is easy to use and performs well. In addition Amazon Redshift is easier to set up than Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.
"Amazon Redshift is very fast. It has really good response times. It's very user-friendly."
"I like the cost-benefit ratio, meaning that it is as easy to use as it is powerful and well-performing."
"Has a very user-friendly SQL editor and it's very easy to use the connectors."
"Changing from local servers to the cloud is very easy. It's so nice not to have to worry about physical servers."
"Redshift's versioning and data security are the two most critical features. When migrating into the cloud, it's vital to secure the data. The encryption and security are there."
"I find the most valuable features to be the MPP style of processing, which mostly all of the data warehouses provide. The ability to integrate all other AWS services, such as NSS and S3, with little effort is very helpful. The service is well maintained, there are update patches frequently."
"It's scalable because it's on the cloud."
"For the on-premises version of Amazon Redshift, we need to start from scratch. However, with the cloud version whenever you want to deploy, you can scale up, and down, and it has a data warehousing capability. Redshift has many features."
"The solution's scalability is very, very good. It's one of the most important aspects for us."
"The solution offers strong scalability opportunities."
"I have not used the technical support from Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, but I worked with the developers at Microsoft who were top-notch."
"The features most valuable are the simplicity, how easy it is to create a dashboard from different information systems."
"The stability is pretty good."
"They are very reliable and cost-effective."
"Can capture all the transactional data throughout a company."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are how easy and quick it is to set up the linked services."
"Amazon should provide more cloud-native tools that can integrate with Redshift like Microsoft's development tools for Azure."
"Redshift's GUI could be more user-friendly. It's easier to perform queries and all that stuff in Azure Synapse Analytics."
"We are using third-party tools to integrate Amazon Redshift, they should create their own interface on their own for it to be easily connected on the AWS itself."
"Planting is the primary key enforcement that should be improved."
"The technical support should be better in terms of their knowledge, and they should be more customer-friendly."
"The refreshment rate of data reaching Redshift from other sources should be faster."
"There are too many limitations with respect to concurrency."
"In our experiments, the handling of unstructured data was not very smooth."
"More integration is needed to improve the product for the future."
"I am very sure that there are areas in need of improvement, but I can't recall what they are off the top of my head."
"Indicating what areas need improvement in this solution is a difficult question because the organizations that I am working for are really new in this area. However, an even better more simple interface, or perhaps an extension of a connector app store solution, would be helpful."
"Could have more connectors and better integration for Hadoop."
"I'd like to see part of the service de-coupled."
"Microsoft should develop an interface to make it easier to shift from on-premise to the cloud."
"I am pretty sure that there are areas that need improvement but I just can think of them off the top of my head."
"Integration with other products is an area that can be improved."
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Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 15 reviews while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 43 reviews. Amazon Redshift is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon Redshift writes "Quick to deploy, easy to use, and performs well, but ingesting data in realtime should be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "Scalable, intuitive, facilitates compliance and keeping your data secure". Amazon Redshift is most compared with Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, Vertica, Teradata and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, whereas Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Snowflake, Apache Hadoop, SAP BW4HANA, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Azure Data Factory. See our Amazon Redshift vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics report.
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