Databases in Azure

• Types of Databases
  • Relational Databases:
    • Database Engines Supported by Azure
      • Microsoft SQL Server
      • Postgres
      • MySQL
  • NoSQL Databases
    • Database Engines:
      • Cosmos DB
        • Mongo API
        • Cassandra API
        • Gremlin API
  • Cache Databases
    • Engine:
      • Redis

Azure SQL

• Azure SQL is a fully managed SQL Server Database in the Azure Cloud
• There are three offerings
  • Azure SQL Database: supports modern cloud applications includes serverless
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance:
  • SQL Server on Azure VMs

Azure SQL Database

• This a fully managed Database as a service hosted in Azure
• Two options:
  • Single Database
  • Elastic pool
• Create a single database as shown in the class (follow video) and navigate to database and server
  
  
• Backups
  
  
• Failovers