CODING & ANALYTICS by Gbenga Oridupa

  What is Azure SQL? Azure SQL is a family of managed, secure, and intelligent products that use the SQL Server database engine in the Azure cloud. Azure SQL Database: Support modern cloud applications on an intelligent, managed database service, that includes serverless compute. Azure SQL Managed Instance : Modernize your existing SQL Server applications at scale with an intelligent fully managed instance as a service, with almost 100% feature parity with the SQL Server database engine. Best for most migrations to the cloud. SQL Server on Azure VMs: Lift-and-shift your SQL Server workloads with ease and maintain 100% SQL Server compatibility and operating system-level access. Azure SQL is built upon the familiar SQL Server engine, so you can migrate applications with ease and continue to use the tools, languages, and resources you're familiar with. Your skills and experience transfer to the cloud, so you can do even more with what you already have. What do you want to do? Suppor...

Apache Cassandra is a distributed database that delivers the high availability, performance, and linear scalability today’s most demanding applications require.  It offers operational simplicity and effortless replication across cloud service providers, data centers, and geographies, and it can handle petabytes of information  and thousands of concurrent operations per second across hybrid cloud environments. The arrival of managed cloud services to Cassandra is key to making this high-performance, highly-scaled distributed database accessible to a wider audience.  Cassandra has long been known for its performance and scale, but never for its ease of use. Given those hurdles,  But, as the popularity of AWS's DynamoDB service shows, there is strong demand for distributed databases. The fact is, managed cloud services eliminate, patches, maintenance, and upgrades.  The management API wraps an abstraction layer around the JMX (Java Management Extensions)  tha...