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Azure SQL Managed Instance vs Infobright DB comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Azure SQL Managed Instance
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
11th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (11th)
Infobright DB
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
38th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (19th)
 

Featured Reviews

Kunal Das - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer at Happiest Minds Technologies
Hybrid data platform has delivered secure AI-ready workloads and reduced operational effort
Regarding Azure SQL Managed Instance, I would like to see improvements in AI capabilities. If we want to utilize AI features, we need to provide the resources and offer instructions to receive proper answers. If that could be improved, it would yield many benefits. Additionally, performance and compute skills should be enhanced, security upgraded, automation backed, and more productivity tools developed for real-time architecture and tooling. Currently, AI is booming, and I think features that enhance scalability and performance are essential. First, I believe there should be good scalability and architecture. The second aspect pertains to an agentic environment such as GitHub Copilot agent mode, web portal query editor, or Terraform coverage. Finally, security should also be a focus, particularly regarding event streaming transitions.
it_user708987 - PeerSpot reviewer
MySQL DBA at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Excellent reporting server that is compatible with MySQL
We ran into some quirks that Infobright had. We interacted with Infobright's support and were able to resolve them. There still are issues with data replication - Infobright is currently for one server (unless you buy the Infobright appliance). This would mean that redundancy is something you need to implement yourself.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Security-wise, Azure SQL Managed Instance is absolutely robust, and governance-wise, the manageability of Azure SQL Managed Instance is very good."
"I can tell you categorically that the ROI, the return on investment is very, very high and it's very commendable."
"All features are valuable, including SQL query generation, generating reports quickly, time-saving capabilities, and timely delivery, and the use of Azure SQL Managed Instance has significantly improved day-to-day productivity, ensuring efficient business report generation."
"The most important aspect of Azure SQL Managed Instance for me is its serverless compute, as it has cost efficiency and massive scalability, along with elastic pools and a Hyperscale tier."
"Azure SQL Managed Instance includes 100% feature parity and support for critical instance features, allowing minimal code changes when migrating from on-premises to the cloud."
"Azure SQL Managed Instance has positively impacted our organization by reducing the amount of infrastructure and database administration required from our team."
"Azure SQL Managed Instance has positively impacted my organization because we save a lot on resources, particularly on hiring people with skills to manage SQL servers."
"ICE helped us improve the speed for the “group-by” query by 10x."
"Infobright allowed us to reduce the number of moving parts and complexity that we had while providing good performance to produce our reports."
"It is very straightforward and easy to work with."
"The performance of ad hoc aggregation queries is superior to any RDBMS that I have used and I have used them all."
"A valuable feature was the use of a columnar database for large, ever-growing, big datasets."
"We now have multiple times faster queries in comparison to MS SQL."
"The high compression and the relatively fast load for a free product."
"It has very amazing smart grid query feature for very fast aggregate queries across millions of rows"
 

Cons

"I recently observed performance degradation in my application already in the cloud, primarily due to the lack of AI agents."
"One area that could be improved is the visibility and simplicity of performance and cost management."
"Azure SQL Managed Instance can be improved by adding more scalability options."
"Regarding Azure SQL Managed Instance, I would like to see improvements in AI capabilities. Additionally, performance and compute skills should be enhanced, security upgraded, automation backed, and more productivity tools developed for real-time architecture and tooling."
"The only red flag I could point out is you don't have 100% control of your data. You don't have 100% control of that particular server because it is Microsoft that has access to it."
"The customer support for Azure SQL Managed Instance is the usual Microsoft support, neither great nor bad."
"MPP, distributed processing!!! And better integration with Hadoop."
"When running a complex subquery, the system hangs without giving the user any response."
"After all the re-work to our product to remove as much reliance on Infobright, and the extra hardware costs we had to absorb, there was definitely a negative return on investment."
"There still are issues with data replication - Infobright is currently for one server (unless you buy the Infobright appliance)."
"We didn’t purchase the Enterprise Edition because it was too expensive for a product that wasn’t going to replace our main DWH database (Oracle), but was, somehow, only an addition for it."
"Only the data from the columns that reached 2GB will actually decrease. Other columns below 2GB in size do not leave the disk."
"On the contrary, we have switched back to the MS SSAS Tabular Model, because of pricing policy."
"There was no scalability at all. Infobright didn't permit any changes in tables."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Our pricing was based on server instances and it was actually very cheap compared to Oracle. I guess you get what you pay for."
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Azure SQL Managed Instance?
Regarding Azure SQL Managed Instance, I would like to see improvements in AI capabilities. If we want to utilize AI features, we need to provide the resources and offer instructions to receive prop...
What is your primary use case for Azure SQL Managed Instance?
I work with Azure SQL Managed Instance, which is a managed instance. Azure SQL Managed Instance is basically a single database and is a fully managed isolated database. There is also an elastic poo...
What advice do you have for others considering Azure SQL Managed Instance?
If asked for advice, I recommend going with Azure SQL Managed Instance over AWS. I suggest Azure because of its hybrid benefits. Upon initial registration, it offers approximately 150 to 200 dollar...
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REZ-1, SonicWALL, IntegriChain, Fuseforward International Inc., Polystar, Live Rail, Mavenir Systems, JDSU Partners, Bango
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