We performed a comparison between Oracle Database as a Service and SQL Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Not only does it provide a mature, reliable solution for DR. It also helps if application owners need to look into data which is a couple of hours old, using Flashback Database on the standby database."
"I will rate this solution a nine out of ten. We have been using this solution for the past ten years. We will continue the partnership. I do not expect to see any further integration of the tool with our software. I will recommend this tool to those with a large database."
"It's a scalable product."
"As a database administrator, it has a lot of features to help you manage the database and the backup."
"Oracle Database as a Service is stable."
"When we want more information on something that we are using, it is easy to find related topics on the internet."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"My impression of the scalability of Oracle Database as a Service is very high."
"SQL Azure can integrate well with other Microsoft Windows services."
"The backup features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable aspect of SQL Azure is the SQL language itself. It's open and everybody can use it at my company. Also, we thought in the beginning that the response time would be inadequate, but it's actually decent. It's much better than expected. Then again, I'm not a programmer, but that's what I hear from our development team."
"We primarily and generally use it only for DB purposes. When it comes to the Azure part, we can easily provision, scale up, and scale down the generator machine. This kind of flexibility is the USP of SQL Azure. Its interface and ease of use are also valuable. It is very easy to use and integrate with multiple databases. If I need to pull in or import some data from my on-premises database, the ease with which you can connect and pull the data, not only from SQL Server but also from other flavors of MySQL or even Oracle, is very good."
"I am very happy with this solution; right now, I don't think there is anything I would change."
"The most useful feature of Azure SQL is the queries for manipulating the data, such as the tables and the storage processors."
"They have good documentation. It's concentrated information."
"My impression is that this solution is quite stable."
"The area in this solution that could be improved is that currently, it's difficult to do the setup. You need to do all kinds of command lines to get it set up. If that setup becomes easier and easily manageable, that would be great."
"Some bugs could be fixed. There have been some internal software bugs, just like any other newly released software. These bugs gets fixed by patch updates from Oracle on regular basis."
"The product must improve its performance."
"Oracle DBaaS could be compatible with more platforms."
"Earlier, the interface was continuously changing. Features you used would be moved somewhere else, so it was a little challenging to navigate, but now I think it's stable."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"My favorite option – Multitenant – should be available for some pluggable databases in all editions, without any fee."
"The solution’s price could be reduced."
"The solution can be improved by reducing the constraints available."
"The solution lacks feedback tools."
"The solution can be improved by reducing the cost so more users can be added."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of better self-service tools."
"The preset configuration switches we can select on SQL Azure should be made more liberal to work on."
"There could be more collaboration with other tools like Data Factory and Databricks."
"Operational cost needs improvement."
"They should include more accessible functions for image tooling."
Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 5th in Database as a Service with 63 reviews while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. Oracle Database as a Service is rated 8.6, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Database as a Service writes "Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with Amazon RDS, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud Spanner and IBM Db2 on Cloud. See our Oracle Database as a Service vs. SQL Azure report.
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