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 is a fairly mature product. It provides good stability."
"Emergency mode is quite useful."
"Azure Portal is most valuable."
"It's user-friendly. Compared to other solutions, it's based more on clicks, not on scripts. It's easy to manage."
"The most valuable feature of SQL Azure is centralized authentication because I'm using the domain, user name, and password, for Microsoft 365 account with multifactor authentication and the security has been working well."
"It's the type of product that doesn't need much technical support assistance as it works seamlessly."
"The best thing about the solution is that it is tightly integrated with Azure Functions and Azure App Service, making it easy to deploy to the cloud."
"I would give their support a ten if they had more tutorials available."
"If it's a transitional system, there is a lot of reporting, so the solution becomes a bit slow when it's churning out tons of data, but it's good for a mid-sized application"
"The price is a little higher."
"The pricing plans when using multiple Microsoft solutions are complex and have room for improvement."
"I think this product can improve its integrations with business intelligence software. The integrations are always cumbersome due to the approvals, passwords, et cetera."
"It should have better profiling capabilities."
"Lack of flexibility for developers in terms of performance assistance."
"They should include more accessible functions for image tooling."
"From a security perspective, although their features are decent, they can always be improved upon, updated, and refined to help protect clients better."
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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 Google Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and vCloud Air.
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