We performed a comparison between kdb+ and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and others in Relational Databases Tools."The solution returns data quickly, and data retrieval is fast in kdb+."
"Comparing with other database management systems that I tried in other companies, SQL Server is quite easy to install, configure, and maintain."
"Most valuable features include: high availability, clustering, save backup and recovery."
"SQL is very easy to manage."
"I use it to fine tune my procedures and functions."
"The technical support is good."
"We've found it to basically be pretty problem-free."
"Excel integration is one of its most valuable features."
"It will do clustering, so you can have two database servers looking at the same data simultaneously."
"The solution should have a more user-friendly user interface."
"I want to see one improvement and this involves the replication between the DC and DR."
"The integration could be better. They are not open-source, so the integration with other platforms is not that easy."
"Their datatypes need improvement."
"Scalability is an area that needs improvement, and the deployment is difficult, which why I'm looking for an appliance to deploy it in a much more scalable way."
"In some cases it is quite difficult, like the lack of ease of the replication and other issues. They have to improve on that. They do not have features like "always on," which is complicated."
"The treatment of database storage could be improved."
"Sometimes the system hangs. Its databases should be able to deal with more data in a faster way. Its speed of processing larger amounts of information should be improved."
"Improvement in SQL Server should focus on lowering the high cost, especially for environments requiring extensive CPU and memory usage like data warehousing"
kdb+ is ranked 19th in Relational Databases Tools with 1 review while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. kdb+ is rated 9.0, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of kdb+ writes "An easy-to-deploy solution that can be used for data ingestion and usage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". kdb+ is most compared with Oracle Database In-Memory, MariaDB and SingleStore, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database.
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