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+."
"Very stable relational database management system that offers ease of management, querying, and scaling. It has well-designed databases."
"I have found that SQL Server works very well in the Microsoft Dynamics environment."
"Tuning Advisor suggests where to add indexes and from where to remove them. It works like an adviser."
"The stability is fine, especially if you're hosting it on AWS or Azure. You can get up to 99.99% stability on AWS."
"It's great that the database engine is always on."
"Since we can automate most of our tasks, it means that the management is very easy."
"I use it to fine tune my procedures and functions."
"The SQL Server is low maintenance, it does not require advanced technical skills to maintain or use it as you might in other similar database solutions. You need some knowledge on how to access the solution and how to query it but it is fairly straightforward."
"The solution should have a more user-friendly user interface."
"The backup capacity needs to be bigger."
"SQL Server could integrate better with other platforms."
"From a DB administrator perspective, I would like to see more space requirements and space capacity history, so that we are able to see which DBs are growing, and by how much per day or week."
"They could improve by adding the SQL format."
"The interface of the tool has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The documentation could be much better. It's lacking right now. If there are better help pages, for even complicated queries and stuff like that that would be quite a help for users."
"The scalability and the high availability feature can be expanded or improved. Currently, there is a limitation on scalability. A feature similar to the Oracle Diagnostic feature can be included to provide a better user experience."
"SQL Server could improve the integration with nonrational database solutions, such as MongoDB."
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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