#1 most frequent
United States of America
57.9%1,560 installations of 2,694
What is Azure Database?
Available on Microsoft's Azure, Azure Database is a managed cloud-based option for a variety of popular community and open source databases.
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Fully managed, intelligent, and scalable PostgreSQL
- Azure Database for MySQL - Scalable, open-source MySQL database
- Azure Database for MariaDB - Enterprise-ready, fully managed community MariaDB
Azure's fully managed PostgreSQL database automates maintenance, patching, and updates. Users can provision in minutes and independently scale compute or storage in seconds. Use the preview of Azure Arc–enabled PostgreSQL to build in hybrid and multi-cloud environments and take advantage of elastic scale, consistent management, and cloud billing models.
Azure Database for MySQL enables users to set up, manage, and automate the maintenance of a database server, including routine updates, backups, and security. Its burstable instances or stop-start capabilities are presented to lower the total cost of ownership. Users can build with the latest MySQL Community Edition using existing tools, drivers, and programming languages of choice.
Combining MariaDB Community edition with a fully managed service to frees developers from complex infrastructure and database management. Azure Database for MariaDB provides database management capabilities like automatic patching, automatic backups, and built-in monitoring and security.
Azure Database for MySQL enables users to set up, manage, and automate the maintenance of a database server, including routine updates, backups, and security. Its burstable instances or stop-start capabilities are presented to lower the total cost of ownership. Users can build with the latest MySQL Community Edition using existing tools, drivers, and programming languages of choice.
Combining MariaDB Community edition with a fully managed service to frees developers from complex infrastructure and database management. Azure Database for MariaDB provides database management capabilities like automatic patching, automatic backups, and built-in monitoring and security.
Categories & Use Cases
Top Performing Features
Automatic software patching
Patches applied to database automatically
Category average: 8.7
Automated backups
Automated backup enabling point-in-time data recovery
Category average: 8.3
Database security provisions
Provision for database encryption, network isolation, and identity access management
Category average: 8.8
Areas for Improvement
Monitoring and metrics
Built-in monitoring of multiple operational metrics
Category average: 6.7
Automatic host deployment
Compute instance replacement in the event of hardware failure
Category average: 7.3
Database scalability
Ease of scaling compute or memory resources and storage up or down
Category average: 9
Who Buys & Uses Azure Database
#2 most frequent
India
6.2%168 installations of 2,694
#3 most frequent
Canada
5.2%140 installations of 2,694
AI Powered Software for Database Controlling and Management
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Azure Databases offers our company scalable, intelligent, and reliable database services, with an extrinsic performance that solves the cloud problems in a company. The software is automated and AI-powered, allowing us to optimize its operations and work towards sustainable data management. Azure Databases also offers cloud storage, hence, we never worry about our files or data. Azure Databases has cloud flexibility, maintains security, and works in all departments that contain data of high sensitivity.
Pros
- Azure Databases is functional on cloud, giving the users flexibility and accessibility.
- Azure Databases has a high storage space, and high speed processing power.
- The tool is AI powered, hence, reputable for intelligent analysis.
Cons
- Should develop a friendly and more intuitive dashboard and UI wizard
- Create smart package for fair ratings/prices.
- Improve on documentation and perfect the support response.
Return on Investment
- Database security is a positive ROI for users.
- Undisputed cloud space, which control access, and smoothly accessible.
- Automated backup, which fully declassify or eliminate data loss.
Alternatives Considered
Snowflake and Google BigQuery
Other Software Used
Azure Data Factory, Oracle Aconex, Analytic Call Tracking