Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Exadata vs. Oracle Spatial vs. SkySQL Comparison Chart

Part of the Azure SQL family, Azure SQL Database is the intelligent, scalable, relational database service built for the cloud. It’s evergreen and always up to date, with AI-powered and automated features that optimize performance and durability for you. Serverless compute and Hyperscale storage options automatically scale resources on demand, so you can focus on building new applications without worrying about storage size or resource management. Eliminate the complexity of configuring and managing high availability, tuning, backups and other database tasks with a fully managed SQL database. Accelerate your application development on the only cloud with evergreen SQL using the latest SQL Server capabilities, and never worry about updates, upgrades, or end of support again. Build modern apps your way with provisioned and serverless compute options.

In keeping with Oracle's mission to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, unlock endless possibilities, Oracle Database now includes machine learning, spatial and graph features. If you have an Oracle Database license, you can use all the industry-leading machine learning, spatial and graph capabilities for development and deployment purposes on-premise and in Oracle Cloud Database Services. Oracle's spatial database is included in Oracle's converged database, allowing developers and analysts to get started easily with location intelligence analytics and mapping services. It enables Geographic Information System (GIS) professionals to successfully deploy advanced geospatial applications. Organizations can manage different types of geospatial data, perform hundreds of spatial analytic operations, and use interactive map visualization tools with the spatial features in Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Database.