Niko Neugebauer takes us through the columnstore offerings available in Azure SQL Database:
Almost 2 years ago (22nd of March 2018) in Columnstore Indexes – part 121 (“Columnstore Indexes on Standard Tier of Azure SQL DB”) I have already mentioned that Columnstore Indexes were available in Azure SQL Database in Standard 3 (S3) edition and higher, while people I meet keep on mentioning and believing that in order to get Columnstore Indexes one needs to use Premium editions.
Since that blog post a lot of time has passed and in the mean time we have got new tiers with new generations of provisioned General Purpose tiers (Generation 4, Generation 5, FSv2 Series & M Series) appearing, plus the Serverless Tier and not to forget the very promising Hyperscale tier … besides the Azure SQL Database Managed Instance of course, which has already been generally available for some time and the good old Elastic Pools which were never mentioned in original article.
It sounds like, on the whole, columnstore is a normal part of Azure SQL Database across the board—it’s not a special add-on feature.