Innovate faster with Azure data services
Wherever your data is, Microsoft Azure will help you unlock its potential. Build intelligent apps faster using the tools and technologies of your choice and artificial intelligence (AI) that’s already built-in.
Easily build and deploy anywhere
Use your team’s existing skillsets and tools you know and love to build intelligent apps and deploy without a change in code. Build once, deploy anywhere: in the cloud, on premises, and to edge devices, with the confidence of global distribution to more data centers than any other provider.
Create an impact using an open platform
Choose your favorite technologies, including open source. Azure supports a range of deployment options, popular stacks and languages, and a comprehensive set of data engines. Capitalize on this flexibility, plus the performance, scale, and security delivered by Microsoft technologies to build apps for any scenario.
Develop apps with built-in intelligence
Building intelligent apps using Azure is easy, because no other platform brings analytics and native AI to your data wherever it lives and in the languages you use. Take advantage of a rich set of cognitive APIs to easily build new experiences into your apps for human-like intelligence.
Find the database product you need
| You're looking for... | Use this |
|---|---|
| Maintain full flexibility and control over your database and operating system in the cloud. | SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines |
| A fully managed relational database that provisions quickly, scales on the fly, and includes built-in intelligence and security | Azure SQL Database |
| A fully managed, scalable MySQL relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost | Azure Database for MySQL |
| A fully managed, scalable PostgreSQL relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost | Azure Database for PostgreSQL |
| A globally distributed multi-model database, with support for NoSQL choices, with industry-leading performance and SLAs. | Azure Cosmos DB |
| Help migrating your databases to the cloud with no application code changes | Azure Database Migration Service |
Find the analytics product you need
| You're looking for... | Use this |
|---|---|
| A fully managed, elastic data warehouse with security at every level of scale at no extra cost | Azure Synapse Analytics |
| Fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform | Azure Databricks |
| A fully managed cloud Hadoop and Spark service backed by 99.9% SLA for your enterprise | HDInsight |
| A fully managed cloud service that enables you to easily build, deploy, and share predictive analytics solutions | Machine Learning |
| An on-demand, real-time stream processing service with enterprise-grade security, auditing, and support | Stream Analytics |
| A no-limits data lake built to support massively parallel analytics | Data Lake Store |
| A fully managed on-demand pay-per-job analytics service with enterprise-grade security, auditing, and support | Data Lake Analytics |
| An enterprise-wide metadata catalog that makes data asset discovery simple | Data Catalog |
| A data integration service to orchestrate and automate data movement and transformation | Data Factory |
See how companies use Azure to realize their potential
Databases
Azure SQL Database
Managed, intelligent SQL in the cloud
Azure Cosmos DB
Globally distributed, multi-model database for any scale
Azure Synapse Analytics
Limitless analytics service with unmatched time to insight (formerly SQL Data Warehouse)
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Managed PostgreSQL database service for app developers
Azure Database for MySQL
Managed MySQL database service for app developers
Analytics
HDInsight
Provision cloud Hadoop, Spark, R Server, HBase, and Storm clusters
Machine Learning Studio
Easily build, deploy, and manage predictive analytics solutions
Data Factory
Hybrid data integration at enterprise scale, made easy
Azure Stream Analytics
Real-time analytics on fast moving streams of data from applications and devices
Data Catalog
Get more value from your enterprise data assets
Data Lake Analytics
Distributed analytics service that makes big data easy
Related Azure services and Microsoft products
Cognitive Services
Add smart API capabilities to enable contextual interactions
Azure Bot Service
Intelligent, serverless bot service that scales on demand
