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What is Azure SQL Database?

It is the intelligent, scalable, cloud database service that provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility and up to a 212% return on investment. It is a database service that can quickly and efficiently scale to meet demand, is automatically highly available, and supports a variety of third party software.
Azure SQL Database is a tool in the SQL Database as a Service category of a tech stack.

Who uses Azure SQL Database?

Companies
112 companies reportedly use Azure SQL Database in their tech stacks, including Global, Ataccama ONE, and Core Banking.

Developers
381 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Azure SQL Database.

Azure SQL Database Integrations

Snowplow, AzureDataStudio, Microsoft Access, Centreon, and Hosted Graphite are some of the popular tools that integrate with Azure SQL Database. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Azure SQL Database.
Pros of Azure SQL Database
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Decisions about Azure SQL Database

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Azure SQL Database in their tech stack.

Mathuba Dlamini
Full Stack Developer at Dimension Data · | 5 upvotes · 10.7K views

We are embarking on a project of building a Django web application on Microsoft Azure. The debate holding us back is whether to with Azure SQL Database or Azure Database for PostgreSQL. From all the tutorials and video tutorials they use Azure Database for PostgreSQL but one team member is insisting on Azure SQL Database. Please advise of what to consider if I capitulate what database do I need to install locally to get the project moving.

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Hi, I am trying to build a billing system for utilities. It will have a web app and a mobile app too. The USP of this system would be that the mobile application would support offline syncing, basically, let's say while doing the payment the internet goes down then when it's back the payment goes through. Basically, some features could work offline. So I am confused as to which DB to go for. A relational one like Azure SQL Database or a non-relational one like MongoDB?

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Azure SQL Database Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Azure SQL Database?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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Azure SQL Database's Followers
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