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Azure SQL Database vs Azure Virtual Machines: What are the differences?

What is Azure SQL Database? Managed, intelligent SQL in the cloud. 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.

What is Azure Virtual Machines? *It provides on-demand, high-scale, secure, virtualized infrastructure *. You can create Linux and Windows virtual machines. It gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions—development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter. It’s the freedom of open-source software configured the way you need it.

Azure SQL Database can be classified as a tool in the "Databases" category, while Azure Virtual Machines is grouped under "Virtual Machine".

Property With Potential, Kriasoft, and vLearning Solutions are some of the popular companies that use Azure SQL Database, whereas Azure Virtual Machines is used by Talentsoft, beejuy, and Kantar Millward Brown. Azure SQL Database has a broader approval, being mentioned in 21 company stacks & 20 developers stacks; compared to Azure Virtual Machines, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Pros of Azure SQL Database
Pros of Azure Virtual Machines
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    Managed
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    Secure
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    Scalable
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    Free Tier
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    Flexible
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    Reliable
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    Backed by Azure
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    Auto Scale
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    Scalability
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    Low Cost

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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.

What is Azure Virtual Machines?

You can create Linux and Windows virtual machines. It gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions—development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter. It’s the freedom of open-source software configured the way you need it.

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What companies use Azure Virtual Machines?
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What are some alternatives to Azure SQL Database and Azure Virtual Machines?
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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