We performed a comparison between Exasol and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"The speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"It is easy to scale."
"Its speed is great."
"It integrates well with other platforms."
"SQL Server is definitely easy to use, and with the volume that we have, it's also stable."
"I like that it's relatively stable."
"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."
"It helps with moving the design of the database into reality."
"I believe Always On is the most valuable feature. It's also easy to use and not very tricky."
"The installation was straightforward. We did not have a large installation and it took a couple of weeks to complete."
"The solution seems to be pretty flexible."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"Since this is a relational order system, scalability has a limit. If your system is very big, you need bigger servers and you have to spend more money. We scale a system up to a certain level, and then we move or shift data to the warehouse, which is NoSQL. We then do not have any bottleneck in scaling. For using this technique we are happy with it."
"There should be more security updates for the product."
"When transferring data from the SQL Server to Excel, the data types are not copied correctly. This issue might be associated with the formatting of the data types."
"One stability issue I encountered was the deadlocking between calls to the same resources (tables, etc.). That was solved by row versioning."
"Microsoft support is an issue unto itself."
"If this solution could provide an automatic indexing feature it would be very useful."
"I would like to see improvements made to the stability of SQL Server, as well as more analytics requirements."
"Although I am satisfied with the solution, some clients have asked us to resolve technical issues, such as those involving silver solution and replication."
Exasol is ranked 12th in Relational Databases Tools with 8 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Exasol is rated 8.0, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Exasol writes "Fast query processing and easy-to-store all the data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Exasol is most compared with SAP HANA, Vertica, Oracle Database In-Memory, MySQL and Oracle Database, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database. See our Exasol vs. SQL Server report.
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