Azure Database

Azure Database

Azure Database is a relational database-as-a-service that is reliable and secure, and it gives high performance without having to worry about any infrastructure.

• Azure SQL Database: It is a relational database hosted in Azure and built on SQL server technologies. It provides a scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant database.
• Azure DocumentDB: It is a NoSQL database-as-a-service whose features are a transactional process over no schema data, rich querying and query processing and transaction semantics that are similar to the relational databases.
• Azure Redis Cache: It is a data structure that implements a key-value database with optional durability.

So, those were the services of Azure but there is a lot to it. Coming back to our question, ‘what is Microsoft Azure?’, let us see why companies are opting for Azure, in the next section.

Database

This category includes Database as a Service (DBaaS) which offers SQL and NoSQL tools. It also includes databases like Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. It has the following components:

• SQL Database: It is a relational database service in the Microsoft cloud based on the market-leading Microsoft SQL Server engine.
• DocumentDB: It is a fully managed NoSQL database service which is It built for fast and predictable performance and ease of development.
• Redis Cache: It is a secure and highly advanced key-value store. It stores data structures like strings, hashes, lists, etc.