Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse comparison

Microsoft and Oracle are both solutions in the Cloud Data Warehouse category. Microsoft is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.8, while Oracle is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.6. Microsoft holds a 6.5% mindshare in CDW, compared to Oracle’s 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse are top contenders in the cloud data warehousing category. Oracle seems to have the upper hand with superior automation and performance features highlighted in the comparisons.

Features: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is noted for its flexibility, ease of administration, and integration with Power BI. Its MPP architecture supports large-scale data processing and modern tool integration. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse offers self-securing, self-patching, and self-tuning capabilities, leveraging automation for tasks like indexing and adaptation. Users appreciate its scalability and Exadata-based performance.

Room for Improvement: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could enhance pricing transparency, Active Directory integration, and user interfaces for non-technical users. It would benefit from Data Factory and governance improvements. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse should focus on improving user-friendliness, GoldenGate integration, and unstructured data handling. There's also a need for flexible pricing and better on-premises migration functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is utilized in public, private, and hybrid clouds, with mixed reviews on customer service, though generally responsive. Larger customers tend to receive superior support. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is praised for its technical support, known for quick responses and proactive updates. While Microsoft benefits from a broad ecosystem, Oracle offers consistent and localized support.

Pricing and ROI: Both solutions use a pay-as-you-go model. Oracle's pricing is CPU-based, allowing easy scaling, although generally higher, justified by advanced features. Azure pricing varies, with some users finding it cost-effective but unpredictable. Oracle emphasizes performance and strategic cost savings despite higher costs, while Microsoft offers flexible deployment, appealing to Azure ecosystem users.

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Azure Synapse Ana...

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

5th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

12th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is 6.5%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is 5.4%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Data Warehouse Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics	6.5%
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse	5.4%
Other	88.1%

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AnandTiwari

CTO at New Turn Technologies

Has consistently supported integration across diverse environments and streamlined deployment processes

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve their pricing structure. They currently have two separate pricing tiers: full log and partial log. I suggest they implement a single price and reduce charges on logs. They could implement a cap with some free tier or price tier based on the GBs of log collected. This would help customers use Azure more effectively. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is an excellent product because it includes both SIEM and orchestration capabilities with playbooks, but the log management part is very costly. Regarding future improvements, I would appreciate more application connectors for integration, particularly for on-premise based solutions. Many customers still maintain on-premise infrastructure, so having more integration possibilities for these environments would be beneficial.

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Kwajah Mohiuddin

Global Head of Architecture at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Provides self-repair features, but the setup is complex

We use the product for online applications. We use it in the financial industry The product has self-repair features. The tool tunes itself. It separates compute from storage. We can scale storage and compute separately. The setup is complex. Oracle is a complex tool. I have been using Oracle…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is the pipeline that is the ETL tool. It's very well designed and is overall very good. We usually don't use the ETL tool in Databricks, but we use the ETL tool in this solution."

"They are available on the Cloud, and the platform is very intuitive."

"The initial setup was really easy and straightforward."

"The features I find most valuable in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are comprehensive because they have combined almost five to six components into one single bundle."

"The ability to scale out services on-demand and scale them down when they are not required is most valuable. You are in control of your expenditures, and you are also in control of the horsepower that you need. That's a major advantage."

"It's user-friendly and has a good dashboard."

"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are how easy and quick it is to set up the linked services."

"One central workspace to manage everything for your data warehouse including visualization."

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"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is used globally to deliver extreme performance on large Financial data sets."

"The solution integrates well with Power BI."

"The solution has a self-backup, so you don't need a DBA (database administrator) to do a backup."

"The analytics have been very good. We've found them to be quite useful."

"It is a stable and scalable solution."

"The product has self-repair features."

"It provides Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) capabilities by default to address data security issues."

"The solution is used for analytics and it works for our data security needs."

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Cons

"The initial setup has a bit of a learning curve."

"If I'm looking for something good in the cloud, I would want it to have better standard connectors."

"While the solution is flexible, sometimes this works against the user."

"It needs strong support for social media, internet data, and native support for NoSQL."

"The security performance and cost are the two things that needs improvement."

"It's stable, but its stability could be better. However, we understand that it's in production, and new features are getting added and upgraded, so you do get hiccups sometimes."

"In the future, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve the performance, there are other solutions that are better, such as Databricks."

"The linked services can be improved. We can create dynamic linked services to access a lot of databases but only those of the same type. For example, I can use the same linked services to access 11 SQL databases. However, if I have 11 SQL databases and five Oracle databases, I need two dynamic linked services. I cannot do it with only one linked service. The UI also needs to be improved. When I have used Azure Synapse for programming with PySpark, Scala, or .NET, for example, the UI has been unstable. If I open two notebooks for programming, one notebook will queue the session of the other."

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"A lot of the tools that were previously there have now been taken away."

"I would like to see Application Express and Oracle R Enterprise fully supported, and I would like to see Oracle Data Mining supported as a front end."

"The installation process is complex. Oracle can make the installation process better."

"Ease of connectivity could be improved."

"The solution lacks visibility options."

"One of the major problem is creating custom tablespace. The ADB serverless option doesn't support custom tablespace creation, which could cause issues during on-premise database migration that requires specifically named tablespace. There should be an option to create customized tablespace."

"I would like to see an on-premise solution in the future."

"The solution could be improved by allowing for migration tools from other cloud services, including migration from Amazon Redshift, RDS, and Aurora."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I'm not sure of the exact cost, however, it is around $100,000 a year."

"We normally pay between $300 and $500 per month, which is quite expensive for how much we actually use it, performance- and usage-wise. They have a cheap version and an expensive version, and our usage usually falls in the middle ground, which makes it not as cost-effective as it could be."

"Pay for what you use"

"There is a cost calculator available online that allows you to input your entire scenario, and it will get back to you with information on what the costs are going to be."

"The solution is expensive at the enterprise level."

"The licensing fees for this solution are on a pay-per-use basis, and not very expensive."

"We chose the serverless option for the database which has saved us a lot of money. Our costs are approximately £600 per month."

"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is a moderately priced solution."

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"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."

"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse's pricing is fair and reasonable compared to the other cloud vendors."

"The cost is perfect with Oracle Universal credit."

"In terms of architecture and pricing structure, I feel it is a little bit costly compared to Azure. It's fine compared to RedShift, but compared to Azure, it's a bit pricey when you calculate for one TB storage plus around five hours of reporting with the frequency of 1TB data. The cost adds up, making Oracle a bit expensive."

"ROI is high."

"The solution is expensive."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."

"Cloud solutions are cheaper, but in the long run, they may not be much cheaper. They certainly have a lower initial cost. The licensing is yearly, and it is based on the size of the hardware and the number of users."

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Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

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Small Business	29
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	55

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Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

How does Amazon Redshift compare with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

Amazon Redshift is very fast, has a very good response time, and is very user-friendly. The initial setup is very straightforward. This solution can merge and integrate well with many different dat...

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What do you like most about Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

The product is easy to use, and anybody can easily migrate to advanced DB.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

Pricing only.

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What do you like most about Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

With Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, things are much simpler. Creating a structure, initializing the servers, extending the servers, those are all things that are very, very easy. That's the main...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not supported, which is not ideal.

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Also Known As

Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft Azure SQL DW, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, MS Azure Synapse Analytics

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Overview

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is an end-to-end analytics solution that successfully combines analytical services to merge big data analytics and enterprise data warehouses into a single unified platform. The solution can run intelligent distributed queries among nodes, and provides the ability to query both relational and non-relational data.

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is built with these 4 components:

Synapse SQL
Spark
Synapse Pipeline
Studio

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Features

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics has many valuable key features, including:

Cloud Data Service: WIth Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics you can operate services (data analytics, machine learning, data warehousing, dashboarding, etc.) in a single workspace via the cloud.
Structured and unstructured data: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics supports both structured and unstructured data and allows you to manage relational and non-relational data - unlike data warehouses and lakes that tend to store them respectively.
Effective data storage: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics offers next-level data storage with high availability and different tiers.
Responsive data engine: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics uses Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) and is designed to handle large volumes of data and analytical workloads efficiently without any problems.
Several scripting languages: The solution provides language compatibility and supports different programming languages, such as Python, Java, Spark SQL, and Scala.
Query optimization: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics works well to facilitate limitless concurrency and performance optimization. It also simplifies workload management.

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Benefits

Some of the benefits of using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics include:

Database templates: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics offers industry-specific database templates that make it easy to combine and shape data.
Better business insights: With Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics you can expand discovery of insights from all your data and apply machine learning models to all your intelligent apps.
Reduce project development time: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics makes it possible to have a unified experience for developing end-to-end analytics, which reduces project development time significantly.
Eliminate data barriers: By using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, you can perform analytics on operational and business apps data without data movement.
Advanced security: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics provides both advanced security and privacy features to ensure data protection.
Machine Learning: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics integrates Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, and Power BI.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics users who are currently using the solution.

PeerSpot user Jael S., who is an Information Architect at Systems Analysis & Design Engineering, comments on her experience using the product, saying that it is “Scalable, intuitive, facilitates compliance and keeps your data secure”. She also says "We also like governance. It looks at what the requirements are for the company to identify the best way to ensure compliance is met when you move to the cloud."

Michel T., CHTO at Timp-iT, mentions that "the features most valuable are the simplicity, how easy it is to create a dashboard from different information systems."

A Senior Teradata Consultant at a tech services company says, "Microsoft provides both the platform and the data center, so you don't have to look for a cloud vendor. It saves you from having to deal with two vendors for the same task."

Microsoft

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is the world’s first and only autonomous database optimized for analytic workloads, including data marts, data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. With Autonomous Data Warehouse, data scientists, business analysts, and nonexperts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size and type. Built for the cloud and optimized using Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Data Warehouse benefits from faster performance and, according to an IDC report (PDF), lowers operational costs by an average of 63%.

Autonomous Database provides the foundation for a data lakehouse—a modern, open architecture that enables you to store, analyze, and understand all your data. The data lakehouse combines the power and richness of data warehouses with the breadth, flexibility, and low cost of popular open source data lake technologies. Access your data lakehouse through Autonomous Database using the world's most powerful and open SQL processing engine.

Oracle

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