I seconded PostgreSQL as one of the best free options and has many free tools like pgAdmin. It also has great support for clustering for high availability and parallelizing queries...

A good amount of my JSON data is highly structured in the sense, I do necessarily know where the data is and how to separate it. Thus, the file format in...

This may help, but note, I am mostly using Azure Data Warehouse, which does include Azure SQL Database, it's just uses it as part of the overall infrastructure.

I...

I should also mention, you can force the developer to only use stored procedures you create. This will help you keep a lock on how they are interacting with the...

Yep, unfortunately, that's the way it goes most of the time with these types of apps. I mean, if the source code itself is compromised without the password, you can...

Sure. I've used Django with SQL Server, but have mostly switched to using Flask over Django in the past year.

Django essentially has a settings file to define what...

Sorry, double post. Please ignore.

It makes sense if you're trying to give the users the ability to pull in attributes on the contract as well attributes on the application. In meaning, you are capturing...