Azure Cosmos DB vs Caspio

Likelihood to Recommend

Cosmos DB is fast, reliable, and highly available. We use it mostly in analytics and applications that leverage big data hosted on the Azure Datacenter. If you have a virtual private cloud in one of Azure sites, then you would definitely need Cosmos. It works well with on-premises applications and offers little to no latency.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Pharmaceuticals Company, 10,001+ employees

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Contact forms are incredibly easy to build and customize, as are most other kinds of more involved forms. Forms allow html input and can be designed in a number of ways. It's helpful if you know some HTML. JavaScript knowledge can add advanced options, but is not necessary for the most common uses. The company used to call itself "No-Code," but has changed to say "Low Code," which is much more accurate.

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Administrator in Marketing

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Azure Cosmos DB

Caspio

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Azure Cosmos DB

Caspio

Visual Modeling

Drag-and-drop Interfaces

Platform Security

Platform User Management

Reusability

Platform Scalability

Pros

Injects unstructured data at a very high speed.
No real need for administrative work, it indexes everything on it's own.

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Employee in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Caspio is an online database platform. It allows one to create multiple tables and views to be stored via the web. Tables can be configured to not only hold data but also to hold files like Word docs and images.
Caspio is great at creating online forms and reports. It allows the user to create forms to capture, update data, whether it's password protected or just a simple form.
As a database platform, one can create online tables and forms linking multiple tables and views to each other. I would say it is the Microsoft Access of the online platforms.
The system is very easy. Wizards allow one to create forms, tables, and datapages. Since the platform is online, you may access your database anywhere.

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Salvador Curiel

Research Services Analyst

BEST Life and Health Insurance CompanyHuman Resources, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Cosmos DB can be very expensive if you're using it for scenarios that are better completed in regular old Azure Table Storage or Blob Storage, specifically if you put some thought into your partitioning schemes. No product is a good substitute for thoughtful system design.
It would be helpful if I had some more insight into how many resources (DTUs) an individual query uses.
The auto-indexing is great, but a little mysterious -- not usually an issue but it does require some intentional thought.

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Lars Kemmann

Solutions Architect

Netrix, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

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Pricing for additional storage could be a bit more competitive
The builder wizard is helpful, however there could be a tutorial for first time users
Calendar pdf exports would be usefull

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Daniel Fisher

Marketing & Communications Team Leader

Heritage LifecareHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Azure Cosmos DB 7.9

Based on 4 answers

The total cost of ownership is much higher than anticipated. The documentation for their API calls is still not complete. TCO did go up as a result as well. Having users learning another JQL-like language also added more complexity to it. Support of ANSI-SQL would be ideal. But the cost of managing it is much less compared to Redis, Mongo, or Cassandra.

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Engineer in Engineering

Biotechnology Company, 11-50 employees

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Caspio 10.0

Based on 1 answer

We are committed to Caspio Bridge. We could migrate to another product, but we would not be able to do so quickly. I estimate that we would need about a year (maybe more) to convert all of our forms and processes if we were to switch to some other product

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Administrator in Marketing

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

Azure Cosmos DB 8.0

Based on 1 answer

Like I said, Cosmos is the way to go. From all of the services that Azure has, Cosmos is very robust in terms of usability. It's ever-evolving and integrates with other applications seamlessly. The interface is pretty easy to understand. I implemented various solutions for my company and Cosmos was one of them.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Pharmaceuticals Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Azure Cosmos DB 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Microsoft is the best when it comes to after-sales support. They have a well-structured training and knowledge base portal that anyone can use. They are usually quick to respond to cases and are on point for on-call support. I have no complaints from a support standpoint. Pretty happy with the support.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Pharmaceuticals Company, 10,001+ employees

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Caspio 8.5

Based on 2 answers

I've had some instances where my team and I discovered a bug in Caspio. We alerted the company, and the bug was fixed in the next regular update of the software. The few times that I've had to contact support, it was a pretty good experience. They're not terribly quick to respond and take action, but they don't ignore you, either.

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Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database & globally distributed NoSQL database service. Its very fast and predictable performance, high availability, elastic scaling, global distribution, and ease of development DB platform compare to MongoDB.

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Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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GroupHigh is so frustrating to use. It is constantly changing the way you can search for bloggers, and we can never find exactly what we are looking for

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Lynzee Jablonka

Digital Account Manager

Everywhere AgencyMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Azure Cosmos DB may be expensive on its own, but it was cheaper than increasing the size/power of our VMs running SQL Server instances enough to keep up with the volume and velocity of the unstructured data.
We got the JSON data out of our SQL Servers and they quit tipping over.

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Employee in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Positive impact of easy of adding new varieties.
Positive impact of having new emails added directly to email list through Zapier.
Positive impact on increasing productivity of our staff.

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Director in Marketing

Non-profit Organization Management Company, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Azure Cosmos DB Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Caspio Editions & Modules

Edition

Free	$0¹
Explore	$125¹
Build	$250¹
Grow	$500¹
Corporate	Custom Pricing

per month

Additional Pricing Details

> All plans include unlimited application users. > Use visual point-and-click tools to build custom database applications without IT or programming skills. > Embed apps seamlessly on any website, intranet, CMS or portal in a few clicks. > Enterprise-grade scalability and reliability on cloud infrastructure running on AWS and Microsoft SQL Server. > Compliance plans support strict regulatory requirements: HIPAA; FERPA; PCI DSS Level 1; VPAT 2.0/Section 508; GDPR; EU-US Privacy Shield; SOC 1, 2 & 3; ISO 9001, 27001; CSA Star Level 1, 2 & 3; 3D Secure 2. > Project consultations for planning and customization, in-depth online help, how-to videos and instructor-led training. > Pricing plans designed for teams of all sizes.

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Azure Cosmos DB

Caspio

Feature Rating Comparison

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Visual Modeling

Drag-and-drop Interfaces

Platform Security

Platform User Management

Reusability

Platform Scalability

Pros

Azure Cosmos DB

Caspio

Cons

Azure Cosmos DB

Caspio

Likelihood to Renew

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Caspio

Usability

Azure Cosmos DB

Caspio

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Azure Cosmos DB

Caspio

Alternatives Considered

Azure Cosmos DB

Caspio

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Caspio

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Caspio

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Azure Cosmos DB Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Caspio Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

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