We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 on Cloud and SQL Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."The reliability is the most valuable feature. It is also user-friendly."
"The initial setup is very easy. It's extremely straightforward."
"The solution has become easier to use over time and it's also reasonably priced."
"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."
"Great auto-scaling and security features."
"The most valuable features of SQL Azure are its reliability and quick scalability."
"The solution is quite straightforward to set up."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Emergency mode is quite useful."
"I would give their support a ten if they had more tutorials available."
"In terms of support, they don't give much support."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Azure SQL can improve by adding more machine learning features like other databases, such as Cassandra or Cosmos DB."
"Microsoft could improve its documentation and support."
"Their availability in the Middle East and Asia regions needs to improve."
"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."
"The way it has been designed, in the on-premises deployments, the underlying Windows OS is highly scalable but has a very large resource requirement. A lot of power-related and memory-related things are there, which I have not seen in the RHEL and Oracle. I have not tried SQL on RHEL EXEC. On Windows, infrastructure-wise, a very large workload is running on the SQL. This issue is related to Windows, not SQL."
"Their support is nice but their responses aren't effective."
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IBM Db2 on Cloud is ranked 12th in Database as a Service while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. IBM Db2 on Cloud is rated 9.0, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 on Cloud writes "Reliable and user-friendly ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". IBM Db2 on Cloud is most compared with Google Cloud SQL and Amazon RDS, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and vCloud Air.
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