Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing vs. Azure SQL Database

Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing

Azure SQL Database

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Oracle offers the Autonomous Transaction Processing, supporting database self-repair and maintenance with machine learning to eliminate human labor, human error, and manual tuning.	$1.34 OCPU Per Hour
Azure SQL Database	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's relational database as a service (DBaaS).	$0.50 Per Hour

Pricing

Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing

Azure SQL Database

Editions & Modules

Transaction Processing: $1.34
OCPU Per Hour
Exadata Storage: $118.40
Per Terabyte Per month

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

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing	Azure SQL Database
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing	Azure SQL Database
Considered Both Products	Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Lisandro Fernigrini Sr. Software Developer / DBA Chose Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Both Azure SQL Database and Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing offer a powerful and robust database platform. The advantage of Autonomous Transaction Processing is the ability to host APEX applications for free and without any special/complicated deployment or … Incentivized Helpful?	Azure SQL Database Hannes Piek Industrial Engineer Chose Azure SQL Database Better and more useful automation tools are available. Better at scaling and hosting your data. Greater security around access of data and encrypting where required. Allows for seamless integration in other Azure solutions which allows for greater flexibility when using the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database Depending on the use case they stack up very well. Google and AWS are well suited multi-cloud strategies or those that need a high level of RDS performance. Incentivized Helpful? Luis Ruiz Business Analyst Chose Azure SQL Database Mainly response time. Azure SQL Database is very fast and very reliable when it comes to executing queries and gathering the data results. Also, the exporting options it gives are far exceeding expectations and enable users to accommodate any deliverable in a timely and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Azure SQL Database I selected Azure SQL because it integrates nicely with the technology stacks we currently maintain. The pricing is right, and clients are happy with that. Scaling is easy. Most of our clients don't want to maintain a full-blown database server, and they don't need one. For … Incentivized Helpful? 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?

Features

Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing

Azure SQL Database

Database-as-a-Service

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing - Ratings	Azure SQL Database 7.3 Ratings 14% below category average
Automatic software patching	00 Ratings	6.30 Ratings
Database scalability	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Automated backups	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Database security provisions	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	00 Ratings	6.80 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	00 Ratings	6.10 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing	Azure SQL Database
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing	Azure SQL Database
Likelihood to Recommend	If your company's value is not increased by maintaining databases, you should use the ATP. Peter Merkert CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	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	Quick and simple to deploy (less than 5 steps to create a new instance) No administrative tasks (backup, re-sizing) required Incentivized Lisandro Fernigrini Sr. Software Developer / DBA Read full review	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	Connectivity between ATP and Oracle Kuberentes Engine cluster seems to drop randomly The ATP could come in an even smaller shape as the smallest shape is already quite big . But if must be more than always free, as that version does have connectivity limitations about 20 connections Peter Merkert CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	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	You get almost all the features of Oracle Database, including the ability to deploy APEX applications, without having to worry about system, storage or database configuration and maintenance, backups, etc. Also, you can start for free and move up adding resources as you need. Incentivized Lisandro Fernigrini Sr. Software Developer / DBA Read full review	The interfaces are intuitive once you are familiar with all the functions. The ability to use different tools to interact with the platform, such as directly via a browser or code editors such as VS Code or Visual Studio is a great option and allows for integrating withn the project and other testing and developing tools. Incentivized Hannes Piek Industrial Engineer 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	Both Azure SQL Database and Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing offer a powerful and robust database platform. The advantage of Autonomous Transaction Processing is the ability to host APEX applications for free and without any special/complicated deployment or configuration process. Having a rapid development environment embedded for free was the main advantage for choosing Oracle as my cloud database provider. Incentivized Lisandro Fernigrini Sr. Software Developer / DBA Read full review	I selected Azure SQL because it integrates nicely with the technology stacks we currently maintain. The pricing is right, and clients are happy with that. Scaling is easy. Most of our clients don't want to maintain a full-blown database server, and they don't need one. For them, Azure SQL is the right size. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Approx 100 times faster spin up than manual setup of an Oracle DB 3h annual maintenance for big version releases (18c to 19c) compared to est. 500h annual maintenance with manual database updates Peter Merkert CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	Positive: very easy implementation! Positive: finally a good (easy) implementation of data masking, something we always neglected on premise. Positive: no maintenance!! No "server is down" messages on your phone at 3 'o clock in the morning. Negative: Too expensive to use for all other scenario's than a few very important applications. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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