Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure SQL Database
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's relational database as a service (DBaaS).
$0.50
Per Hour
Teradata Vantage
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Teradata Vantage is presented as a modern analytics cloud platform that unifies everything—data lakes, data warehouses, analytics, and new data sources and types. Supports hybrid multi-cloud environments and priced for flexibility, Vantage delivers unlimited intelligence to build the future of business. Users can deploy Vantage on public clouds (such as AWS, Azure, and GCP), hybrid multi-cloud environments, on-premises with Teradata IntelliFlex, or on commodity hardware with VMware.
$0
Pricing
Azure SQL DatabaseTeradata Vantage
Editions & Modules
2 vCORE
$0.5044
Per Hour
6 vCORE
$1.5131
Per Hour
10 vCORE
$2.52
Per Hour
Teradata VantageCore
$0
Teradata VantageCloud Lake
$0
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure SQL DatabaseTeradata Vantage
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure SQL DatabaseTeradata Vantage
Top Pros
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Features
Azure SQL DatabaseTeradata Vantage
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure SQL Database
9.2
27 Ratings
5% above category average
Teradata Vantage
-
Ratings
Automatic software patching8.125 Ratings00 Ratings
Database scalability10.027 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated backups9.927 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security provisions9.027 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment9.022 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
SingleStore
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Score 9.7 out of 10
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SingleStore
SingleStore
Score 9.7 out of 10
Snowflake
Snowflake
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
SingleStore
SingleStore
Score 9.7 out of 10
Snowflake
Snowflake
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure SQL DatabaseTeradata Vantage
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(27 ratings)
8.9
(36 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure SQL DatabaseTeradata Vantage
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
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.
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Teradata
TV is well suited for high speed, which is a great for large tables. The workload functionality is very good when in Viewpoint. The BAR functionality could use a little work. QueryGrid is very useful as well. The client handlers are still a work in progress, as I keep hearing that they continue to fail. There are also many restarts on the systems as well.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Maintenance is always an issue, so using a cloud solution saves a lot of trouble.
  • On premise solutions always suffer from fragmented implementations here and there, where several "dba's" keep track of security and maintenance. With a cloud database it's much easier to keep a central overview.
  • Security options in SQL database are next level... data masking, hiding sensitive data where always neglected on premise, whereas you'll get this automatically in the cloud.
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Teradata
  • ETL (Extract - Transfor - Load)
  • NOS to send data from Teradata Vantage to S3 and from S3 to Teradata Vantage
  • Teradata GeoSpacial feature
  • Bulk reading and writing in huge tables
  • MPP capacity already mature
  • Temporal Capacity more mature that other solutions
  • TASM
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Cons
Microsoft
  • One needs to be aware that some T-SQL features are simply not available.
  • The programmatic access to server, trace flags, hardware from within Azure SQL Database is taken away (for a good reason).
  • No SQL Agent so your jobs need to be orchestrated differently.
  • The maximum concurrent logins maybe an unexpected problem.
  • Sudden disconnects.
  • The developers and admin must study the capacity and tier usage limits https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-subscription-service-limits otherwise some errors or even transaction aborts never seen before can occur.
  • Only one Latin Collation choice.
  • There is no way to debug T-SQL ( a big drawback in my point of view).
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Teradata
  • Teradata is an excellent option but only for a massive amount of data warehousing or analysis. If your data is not that big then it could be a misfit for your company and cost you a lot. The cost associated is quite extensive as compared to some other alternative RDBMS systems available in the market.
  • Migration of data from Teradata to some other RDBMS systems is quite painful as the transition is not that smooth and you need to follow many steps and even if one of them fails. You need to start from the beginning almost.
  • Last but not least the UI is pretty outdated and needs a revamp. Though it is simple, it needs to be presented in a much better way and more advanced options need to bee presented on the front page itself.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
This is best solution as a DBA one could expect from a service provider and as a cloud service, it removes all your hassles.
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Teradata
Teradata is a mature RDBMS system that expands its functionality towards the current cloud capabilities like object storage and flexible compute scale.
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Usability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Teradata
It has helped our project to save time, effort and give accurate results in the quickest possible time. The diagnostics feature is also outstanding giving us a detailed report of the error which occurred, when it occurred and the likely cause and resolution of the same as well. The support of SQL is inherited which makes it easy to work on it because you don't need to learn any new language for this.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
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.
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Teradata
We have meetings at the beginning with the technical team to explain our requirements to them and they were really putting in a lot of effort to come up with a solution which will address all our needs. They implemented the software and also trained a few of our resources on the same too. We can get in touch with them now as well whenever we run into a roadblock but it's very less now.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
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 subscription. Azure was just priced right, easy to migrate to and plenty of resources to hire to support/maintain it. Very easy to learn, too.
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Teradata
Teradata is way ahead of its competitor because of its unique features of ensuring data privacy and data never gets corrupted even in worst case scenario. In most cases, the data corruption is a major issue if left unused and it leads to important data being wiped off which in ideal case should be stored for 3 years
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Perfect for small and medium databases, being very cost effective.
  • As a Platform as a Service, there is no concern about patches, upgrades and end of life.
  • Be aware of security and network capabilities. The service cannot run in the VNET as Azure Virtual Machines do.
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Teradata
  • Saving time and cost through its stable integration tools which helps import and export a huge amount of different data.
  • Providing analytics for the different data is easy and quick.
  • Securing all the data processes across the entire company.
  • Great Cloud solution for effective data quality management.
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ScreenShots

Teradata Vantage Screenshots

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