Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS) vs. Azure SQL Database

Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS)

Azure SQL Database

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS)	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS) is a cloud database service which enables users to create a MySQL database. RDS is available for MySQL, PosgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server. RDS for MySQL facilitates software and hardware deployment and helps the user manage databases, including installing patches, monitoring metrics, dynamically scaling up or down, and failing over if needed.	N/A
Azure SQL Database	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's relational database as a service (DBaaS).	$0.50 Per Hour

Pricing

Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS)

Azure SQL Database

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

2 vCORE: $0.5044
Per Hour
6 vCORE: $1.5131
Per Hour
10 vCORE: $2.52
Per Hour

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS)	Azure SQL Database
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS)	Azure SQL Database
Considered Both Products	Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS) No answer on this topic	Azure SQL Database Oliver Michels DevOps Principal Chose Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Database can be setup in minutes, not days like with Oracle Incentivized Helpful? Muddassar Inayat IT Solutions Consultant Chose Azure SQL Database We have selected it because we are using Azure Cloud and it is the best option for us to go ahead with Azure SQL Database. Incentivized Helpful? Niloofar Keshvari Nia IT Operations and Support Specialist Chose Azure SQL Database The simplicity and great features and good support of Microsoft as well as the more reasonable flexible price than other competitors is one of the important reasons for choosing it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database Oracle database is "the" serious database. There really is no competition in that field. SQL Database would be a serious competitor through the ease of implementation and the "no maintenance," but since it's too expensive for "normal" use (medium to small applications), it just … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database We looked at Google Cloud SQL and Amazon RDS services, but we did not want to switch to a different structure from the system we currently use. Incentivized Helpful? Rishabh Khanna Software Engineer Chose Azure SQL Database It is very easy to setup SQL database on Azure. one can always refer to their documentation for best practices. It is highly available and scalable. It is cheaper than its alternatives and provide better performance than others. As we are using many other services of Azure for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database Amazon RDS for SQL Server is the best example to compare with Azure SQL Database since both provide a Microsoft SQL Engine to host your databases. Amazon RDS for SQL is much more compatible with your on-premises databases than Azure SQL, the reason is that Amazon RDS for SQL … Incentivized Helpful? NR Nick Richardson System Administrator Chose Azure SQL Database I prefer Azures UI and cost to Data exchange. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing Chose Azure SQL Database The Azure SQL Database, compared to our on premise SQL server installation, is much easier to use in terms of seeing database diagnostics. There is a whole visualization platform that comes with the tool that will allow your database administrator to see what jobs are tying up … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? İhsan Akkarpuz STA Site Engineer (CV Car, B Car, Cargo, Engine, Transmission) Chose Azure SQL Database Azure SQL has a slight advantage over its rivals because it's developed by Microsoft, so it is well suited to professionals. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database Being able to manage our databases in the cloud, scale quickly, and only require access to VMs made choosing Azure a no-brainer over a traditional SQL Server installation/integration. We don't have the budget or resources to integrate and maintain servers on our own, so using … Incentivized Helpful? Arthur Zubarev Senior Data Platform Consultant Chose Azure SQL Database I would say MySQL in either Aurora or MariaDB form come close however, Azure SQL Database has a more streamlined approach to delivering a consistent programmability model, supported drivers and feature set. Azure SQL Database T-SQL is advantageous and more complete than SQL … Incentivized Helpful? Jacob Biguvu Cloud Engineer/DBA (Cloud and On-Premises) Chose Azure SQL Database Azure owned by Microsoft who owned SQL Server, so provided a variety of tools for easy migration/transition and from on-premises to the cloud; and management. I recommend using Azure for any on-prem SQL server databases. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Jipping Digital Imaging Architect Chose Azure SQL Database Very similar product. Our company preferred to remain in the Microsoft Software Suite. Incentivized Helpful? Duncan Hernandez BI Engineer II Chose Azure SQL Database Azure SQL is a clear upgrade to SQL Server 2012 and pretty much has the advantage with all the extra features that it has. Security, queries, exporting tables, T-SQL has all improved. Transitioning 18+ years of an in-house database to the cloud was a struggle, but for the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database We moved away from Oracle and NoSQL because we had been so reliant on them for the last 25 years, the pricing was too much and we were looking for a way to cut the cord. Snowflake is just too up in the air, feels like it is soon to be just another line item to add to your Azure … Incentivized Helpful? Erik Ralston Chief Architect Chose Azure SQL Database Amazon Relational Database Service is the other obvious competitor. We were already in Azure, so it's not a serious contender for our business due to that bias already, but I do personally find the marketing and documentation of RDS more intimidating to sort through. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database Comparing with Amazon Aurora: Azure SQL DB is 100% compatible with SQL Server and Aurora is compatible with MySQL and PostGreSQL. Because of if, SQL DB suits large enterprises with hundreds of databases better. Comparing with Oracle: the main issue is that Oracle will try to … Incentivized Helpful? Simranjeet Singh Software Developer Chose Azure SQL Database It reduces the business cost as it provides large storage capacity with massive speed. Data security is primary benefit which this product gives me. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database It stacks up in different ways, for the most part, I think Microsoft is doing a really good job versus the competition. They basically started database type products from the beginning. I've always been excited about updates and can see their progress over time. Get's me really … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database AWS's solution would be an alternative. I felt since we're a Window shop and already had a small investment into Azure, it was a no brainer. Incentivized Helpful? ZA Zimran Azim Software Project Manager Chose Azure SQL Database It's more easy to shift and get all the services up in no time, provide best up time and monitoring easily so you can get the best services which take care of themselves. It's a better fitting for a large company size. Incentivized Helpful? Tom Jaskula Data Analytics Practice Lead Chose Azure SQL Database If you are a company that is already invested in Microsoft technologies, then the Azure suite is a better fit than the Amazon suite. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database As we were early adopters with Azure and landed on the Azure PaaS (Platform as a Service), it made sense to use databases that were on the same platform as the application to save on costs. Also, we were impressed with the simplicity of Azure SQL. From a management perspective … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS)

Azure SQL Database

Database-as-a-Service

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS) - Ratings	Azure SQL Database 9.2 Ratings 6% above category average
Automatic software patching	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Database scalability	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Automated backups	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Database security provisions	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS)	Azure SQL Database
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Huawei Cloud Relational Database Services (RDS)	Azure SQL Database
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	Your upcoming app can be built faster on a fully managed SQL database and can be moved into Azure with a few to no application code changes. Flexible and responsive server less computing and Hyperscale storage can cope with your changing requirements and one of the main benefits is the reduction in costs, which is noticeable. Incentivized Niloofar Keshvari Nia IT Operations and Support Specialist Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Scalability is #1: if it used to be an almost no-win endeavour to try to modernize your server or migrate to other hardware, with Azure SQL Database it becomes a press of a button. All the tools simply work after you are on Azure SQL Database. The applications do not need changes in order to start using Azure SQL Database. Hybrid Cloud scenarios will work. Clustering and failover - already there. You can start monitoring the use and extract performance insights in a new way in Azure. Incentivized Arthur Zubarev Senior Data Platform Consultant Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	A little slow on processing complex or large Views. We use a lot of Views to feed our BI system, and the processing time could see some improvement, IMHO. Additional monitoring components would be nice too, automating some built in performance measurement tools would be a nice feature. Price can always be improved as well. It’s not bad, but room for improvement. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	This is best solution as a DBA one could expect from a service provider and as a cloud service, it removes all your hassles. Incentivized ZA Zimran Azim Software Project Manager Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	It just works! Oliver Michels DevOps Principal Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	We give the support a high rating simply because every time we've had issues or questions, representatives were in contact with us quickly. Without fail, our issues/questions were handled in a timely matter. That kind of response is integral when client data integrity and availability is in question. There is also a wealth of documentation for resolving issues on your own. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	Oracle Database is "the" serious database. There really is no competition in that field. SQL Database would be a serious competitor through the ease of implementation and the "no maintenance," but since it's too expensive for "normal" use (medium to small applications), it just priced itself out of the market, so to speak. Nevertheless, we do have 2 or 3 large applications that are highly integrated in azure, and for those it's just too easy to use SQL Database instead of the on premise Oracle Database with VPN gateways etcetera. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	We don't need a dedicated SQL dba because so many of the database maintenance operations are managed. A huge positive not only in budget but time constraints. The ability to scale quickly is the biggest positive as our data needs change constantly. Easy to migrate from legacy tools and systems, saving us on the need for redevelopment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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