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Azure Cosmos DB vs. Azure SQL Database

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Cosmos DB

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's Big Data analysis platform. It is a NoSQL database service and is a replacement for the earlier DocumentDB NoSQL database.N/A

    Azure SQL Database

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAzure SQL Database is Microsoft's relational database as a service (DBaaS).

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    Azure Cosmos DBAzure SQL Database
    Editions & Modules
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    2 vCORE
    $0.5044
    Per Hour
    6 vCORE
    $1.5131
    Per Hour
    10 vCORE
    $2.52
    Per Hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Cosmos DBAzure SQL Database
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Azure Cosmos DBAzure SQL Database
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose Azure Cosmos DB
    Because we often use Microsoft products for large corporate projects and other customer projects, and compatibility and integration are important to us, we used this platform, which in addition to very high security, has a very good response speed, also, building modern …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure Cosmos DB
    Our development and administration teams are just more familiar with the Microsoft Stack, and there was very little additional knowledge required to put this into production.
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure Cosmos DB
    Cosmos DB is unique in the industry as a true multi-model, cloud-native database engine that comes with solutions for geo-redundancy, multi-master writes, (globally!) low latency, and cost-effective hosting built in. I've yet to see anything else that even comes close to the …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Azure SQL Database
    Amazon's RDS offering is actually very good and is used in other parts of the company, we just have a lot of Azure experience so wanted to leverage that.
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Azure Cosmos DBAzure SQL Database
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Azure Cosmos DB and Azure SQL Database
    Feature
    Azure Cosmos DB
    9.9
    7 Ratings
    Azure SQL Database
    -
    Ratings
    Performance10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Concurrency10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data model flexibility9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Azure Cosmos DB and Azure SQL Database
    Feature
    Azure Cosmos DB
    -
    Ratings
    Azure SQL Database
    9.2
    28 Ratings
    Automatic software patching00 Ratings9.026 Ratings
    Database scalability00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Automated backups00 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    Database security provisions00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment00 Ratings10.023 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Azure Cosmos DBAzure SQL Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)