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Imply Enterprise vs Microsoft Azure HorizonDB comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Imply Enterprise
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
16th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure HorizonDB
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
19th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (26th)
 

Featured Reviews

DB
Director of Engineering at Paytm
Provides cost efficiency and flexible control over clusters
The managed offering has two models: Polaris and Hybrid. We explored both during the PoC phase. The Hybrid model gives you the flexibility to keep your data safe on your own site but still have a managed service to control your infrastructure. The Polaris model, on the other hand, does not give you an insight into what kind of AWS box you are using. Based on your capacity planning, you can just choose the correct size of the box. It also gives you a dashboard. I would like Imply to include more flexible billing models with added options for superior infrastructure control, flexibility in scaling, and cost-effectiveness, such as choosing the number of CPUs required. We should have more flexibility and control over the infrastructure in terms of upscaling and downscaling. Currently, there are only certain tightly bound options. With more flexible options, more customers will adopt the solution.
Alex Park - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP - Business Analysis - FX Options at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Data platform has transformed analytics and now provides seamless storage and insight on user behavior
Microsoft Azure HorizonDB scales perfectly. It automatically scales whenever there is a load on the application. I have configured the deployment files on my projects, and the database is able to handle automatic scaling by itself, so I do not have to put much attention on that aspect. It scales down automatically as well. I monitored the scaling and scaling out one or two times during the initial stage when I was first including this database in my project. After the first and second times, I checked only the logs for automatic scaling and scaling out. I have not encountered any issue on the scaling side, and it provides consistent performance for both scaling and scaling out.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"One of the best parts of the solution is the Hybrid model that allows flexibility to keep control over the clusters."
"Imply Enterprise has positively impacted my organization by making our work easy and efficient, making our monitoring manageable for us and making it easy to diagnose issues."
"We have not faced any downtime."
"One specific outcome showing how Imply Enterprise improves things for customers is that analytics performance improves significantly; customers who previously used Google BigQuery for advertising analytics switched to Druid and reduced their analytics time from one or two days to just one or two hours."
"Imply Enterprise has positively impacted our organization as we have not faced any downtime in the past six months, and the stability is very high."
"Since we are in the proof of concept phase, we have noticed some early improvements and potential benefits that stand out so far in terms of speed, reliability, and ease of management."
"Using Microsoft Azure HorizonDB provides better scalability and performance in terms of database administration."
"Microsoft Azure HorizonDB has positively impacted my organization by reducing latency issues, improving performance, and providing a good recovery time."
"I appreciate the features that Microsoft Azure HorizonDB provides, particularly the seamless transformation of the database, data collection, and database access along with the analytics features."
 

Cons

"I would like Imply Enterprise to include more flexible billing models to add options for infrastructure control, flexibility in scaling, and cost efficiency."
"In my opinion, the customer support from Imply is good but not the best, as many customers in South Korea prefer Korean support, while communication is mainly in English, which sometimes complicates support."
"I would like Imply to include more flexible billing models with added options for superior infrastructure control, flexibility in scaling, and cost-effectiveness, such as choosing the number of CPUs required. We should have more flexibility and control over the infrastructure in terms of upscaling and downscaling. Currently, there are only certain tightly bound options."
"Imply Enterprise can be improved by providing more integrations and additional features."
"One area I can identify for improvement is query performance during peak traffic situations."
"Regarding needed improvements, I feel that we need more documentation on Microsoft Azure HorizonDB."
"I want to say that the costing of Microsoft Azure HorizonDB is too high and should be less."
"So far, I have not seen any return on investment from Microsoft Azure HorizonDB in terms of cost."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Imply pricing is in the middle range. Understanding the data model can help reduce overall system costs."
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Imply?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that licensing is post-paid, and the setup cost is not very difficult or restrictive, making installation easier than with other solutions.
What needs improvement with Imply?
Imply Enterprise can be improved by providing more integrations and additional features. I would like to see more user-specific functionality, similar to some other tools we have in our industry th...
What is your primary use case for Imply?
My main use case for Imply Enterprise is based on monitoring performance metrics, tracking, and support. I use it for creating, deploying, managing our infrastructure and monitoring it. A specific ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure HorizonDB?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Microsoft Azure HorizonDB is that the pricing is good.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure HorizonDB?
Improvements for Microsoft Azure HorizonDB mean that we still have not gotten actual usage of real issues. We just started the proof of concept phase, so we might discover what the exact real issue...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Azure HorizonDB?
My main use case for Microsoft Azure HorizonDB is that we were experiencing performance issues in Azure PostgreSQL flexible server, so we wanted to eliminate those issues and started using Microsof...
 

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