Azure SQL Database Features

Database Features (7)

Storage: This feature was mentioned in 95 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Availability: Based on 96 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Stability: 96 reviewers of Azure SQL Database have provided feedback on this feature.
Scalability: Based on 96 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Security: As reported in 95 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Data Manipulation: Based on 92 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Query Language: This feature was mentioned in 93 Azure SQL Database reviews.

Application Performance: Based on 78 Azure SQL Database reviews. Functions when integrated with multiple forms of external applications.
Orchestration: As reported in 75 Azure SQL Database reviews. Allows admisistrators to manage and organize storage, networks, and datacenters.
Database Monitoring: As reported in 78 Azure SQL Database reviews. Monitors performance and statistics related to memory, caches and connections.
Anomaly Detection: As reported in 72 Azure SQL Database reviews. Alerts users when unauthorized parties or malware is detected allowing administrators to remedy the issue.
Network Security: As reported in 77 Azure SQL Database reviews. Secures data at rest and in transit from unauthorized access.

Provisioning: As reported in 76 Azure SQL Database reviews. Allows administrators to organize components of the database to maintain instance efficiency.
Governance: Allows the creating and relinquishing of database access credentials. This feature was mentioned in 76 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Auditing: As reported in 75 Azure SQL Database reviews. Documents access and alterations of the database for analytics and reporting.

Scalability: Expands functionality while maintaining balanced loads. Serves growing demand without reducing functionality. This feature was mentioned in 78 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Backup: Based on 77 Azure SQL Database reviews. The abillity to restore files to its original loacation or alternative sources on-demand.
Archiving: As reported in 77 Azure SQL Database reviews. Stores historical records of information for reverting or reference.
Indexing: As reported in 76 Azure SQL Database reviews. Helps users navigate databases by labeling and organizing datasets.

Data Masking: As reported in 66 Azure SQL Database reviews. Data masking provides an additional layer of access control that can be applied to tables and views.
Authentication And Single Sign-On: Verifies identity of database users. This feature was mentioned in 68 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Data Anonymization: Based on 65 Azure SQL Database reviews. Allows users to gain statistically valid insights from their data while protecting the privacy of individuals.
Database Locking: As reported in 71 Azure SQL Database reviews. Prevents other users and applications from accessing data while it is being updated to avoid data loss or update.
Access Control: As reported in 75 Azure SQL Database reviews. Allows permissions to be granted or revoked in the database, schema or table levels.
Encryption: Built-in native encryption with enterprise key management. This feature was mentioned in 73 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Authentication: Based on 73 Azure SQL Database reviews. Provides multi-factor authentication with certificates.

Text Search: As reported in 73 Azure SQL Database reviews. Provides support for international character sets and full text search.
Data Types: Based on 74 Azure SQL Database reviews. Supports multiple data types like primitive, structured, document etc.
Languages: Supports multiple procedural programming languages like PL/PGSQL, Perl, Python etc. 72 reviewers of Azure SQL Database have provided feedback on this feature.
Operating Systems: Available on multiple operating systems like Linux, Windows, MacOS etc. This feature was mentioned in 72 Azure SQL Database reviews.

Disaster Recovery: As reported in 71 Azure SQL Database reviews. Provides data recovery functionality to protect and restore data in a database.
Data Concurrency: Based on 70 Azure SQL Database reviews. Allows multi-version concurrency control.
Workload Management: Handles workloads, from single machines to data warehouses or web services with many concurrent users. 71 reviewers of Azure SQL Database have provided feedback on this feature.
Advanced Indexing: Allows users to quickly retrieve data through various types of indexing like B-tree, hash table etc. This feature was mentioned in 66 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Query Optimizer: Helps interpret SQL queries and determine the fastest method of execution. 70 reviewers of Azure SQL Database have provided feedback on this feature.

Data Schema: As reported in 73 Azure SQL Database reviews. Data is organized as a set of tables with columns and rows like a table structure.
Query Language: Allows users to create, update and retrieve data in a database. This feature was mentioned in 72 Azure SQL Database reviews.
ACID - Complaint: Adheres to ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability), a set of database transaction properties. This feature was mentioned in 67 Azure SQL Database reviews.
Data Replication: Provides log-based or/and trigger-based replication. This feature was mentioned in 71 Azure SQL Database reviews.