G2 Vendor Directory

Azure SQL Server Stretch Database vs. Zilliz

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure SQL Server Stretch Database

by Microsoft

Zilliz

by ZILLIZ

Overall rating4.14.7
Review count1752
Ease of use8.89.4
Ease of setup8.99.2
Quality of support8.09.6
Meets requirements8.99.4
NPS31.2590.384615
Small Business29.4%49.0%
Mid-Market35.3%38.8%
Enterprise35.3%12.2%
Total page views77613
Total LLM citations213,712

Azure SQL Server Stretch Database

Azure SQL Server Stretch Database was a feature introduced in SQL Server 2016 that allowed organizations to dynamically extend their on-premises databases to Azure, enabling seamless access to both hot and cold data without significant changes to existing applications. This capability provided virtually unlimited storage and compute capacity, facilitating efficient management of large datasets.

Pros

  • Solution Efficiency
  • Features

Zilliz

Zilliz Cloud is a cloud-native vector database platform that stores, indexes, and searches billions of embedding vectors to power enterprise-grade similarity search, recommender systems, retrieval augmented generation, anomaly detection, and more. ​ Zilliz Cloud, built on the popular open-source vector database Milvus, allows for easy integration with vectorizers from OpenAI, Cohere, HuggingFace, and other popular models. Purpose-built to solve the challenge of managing billions of embeddings, Zilliz Cloud makes it easy to build applications for scale.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Speed
  • Features
  • Performance
  • Documentation
  • Scalability