We performed a comparison between Infobright DB 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."It has very amazing smart grid query feature for very fast aggregate queries across millions of rows"
"SQL Server is definitely easy to use, and with the volume that we have, it's also stable."
"The backups are excellent."
"We like business integration, database, and analysis."
"The initial setup isn't overly complex."
"It is a pretty good solution. The on-premise version 2019 has many features, and they had introduced a really good and stable environment in version 2019. It has very good integration with big data clusters and other things. It covers pretty much everything that you can do with a SQL server. You can use any language to connect to it, which is not there in other solutions. They have also introduced Python, and it also has ArcScale. PaaS is a modern, scalable database. You can use Power Automate and a lot of features in this. It is very easy, and you don't have to worry about versions and upgrades. Microsoft keeps on adding new features to this solution. Microsoft is improving its connectivity on an ongoing basis. It connects well with Office 365. If you see something not working, in a couple of weeks, it is going to work because there is a team working on it. You can vote for the things that are missing, and Microsoft can work on them depending on the product that they're launching."
"The installation was straightforward. We did not have a large installation and it took a couple of weeks to complete."
"Easy to implement and user-friendly relational database management system. This product is stable and scalable."
"SQL Server provides good performance. Most of the SQL solutions can be integrated and this solution is no different, you are able to link other databases. For example, we have Oracle running a Postgres Server and it is linked. It follows the ISO standard when it comes to commands, it works well."
"Only the data from the columns that reached 2GB will actually decrease. Other columns below 2GB in size do not leave the disk."
"I am fine with the pricing, but pricing is an area that can always be improved."
"The GUI needs improvement. From a technical perspective, it's quite complex, which may not be a problem for individuals with technical backgrounds like ours, especially since we've encountered similar interfaces. However, navigating the GUI can be challenging for newcomers or product owners without technical experience. For example, as someone transitioning from a developer role to a product management role, I find it relatively easy to use the GUI. But for those without a technical background, it's much more challenging to grasp what's happening."
"SQL Server could improve by increase the performance, it cannot handle large amounts of data. I did not find any additional features compared to others solutions."
"The reporting services of the solution (SSRS and now Power BI) are the less valuable items of the SQL Server suite."
"Microsoft doesn't have active-active load balancing scenarios. It's always a failover cluster."
"SQL Server has good performance, but it could be better."
"The performance needs some improvement and it needs more features integrated into it."
"The solution is lacking a compound index for comparing values."
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Infobright DB is ranked 30th in Relational Databases Tools while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Infobright DB is rated 7.6, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Infobright DB writes "If you need a real big data solution, look for a distributed solution that actually has a proven track record". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Infobright DB is most compared with MySQL and LocalDB, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database.
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I evaluated Infobright for a project several years ago (Hadoop ended up being a better fit for this project). Infobright has a MySQL interface - so if your existing software can talk to MySQL then this will make integration easier (but it sounds like you have MS SQL, so this may not apply).
Infobright was very fast for analytical-type queries, scanning many rows, with a high level of aggregation. Another bonus was that there is very little tuning required (or available - general-purpose DBs need to be tuned to their application and use, but columnar DBs really only have one use). If you use the Infobright loader, getting data into the system is really fast.
Now the downsides - the open source version doesn't support INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE - the only way to get data into the system is via the loader, and once a table was present, all you could do is SELECT or DROP. The Open-source version is only useful for testing the speed of the DB against an existing DB (and the commercial version has a better workload manager, and gets better performance than the open-source version).
If you wish to have a mixed workload database MS SQL Server 2012 might be the way to go (but there will likely be performance compromises in both the OLTP and analytical workloads), On the purely columnar front, Vertica seems to have momentum at the moment, and has a full-featured community edition, which allows 1TB of data, with no time limits.
Jamie
Hi,
I am looking a comparison between SQL 2012 and Infobright.
Since Infobright is an open source columnar DB and it is low cost, I am interested in hearing more about it.
At the same time, I am not sure about the pros and cons of SQL 2012 vs. Infobright.
So please suggest which columnar DB is better in all aspects.
Regards,
Pankaj
The question is somewhat confusing/surprising because these 2 db's are not really in the same league
1) Are you really looking at sql 2005 or is it is mistype, because 2005 is so old that the question does not make sense.
2) Only sql 2012 is columnar, not 2005 or 2008. Inforbright is columnar, so the comparison of an old technology rdbms vs a columnar is not really comparable
3) Infobright is sort of opensource so it is low cost compared to Microsoft. Do you have an existing SQL2005 license and want to convert/upgrade to something more "current" than this old technology ?? The logic of the question is not immediately clear so one does not know what points of similarity/difference you are really looking for (again because sql2005 vs infobright is like comparing apples and pears.
I do not know InfoBright and never used it but I think you should first describe what you want to achieve using a relational database system. Pros and cons will make sense in conjunction with the role you want the relational database system to play. I also assume you want to asses the replacement of SQL Server 2005 with InfoBright, since SQL server 2005 is an old version of Microsoft SQL engine. If this is the case, it will be important to describe the interaction of your database system with other components and you have to think at compatibility aspect.