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+."
"Tuning Advisor suggests where to add indexes and from where to remove them. It works like an adviser."
"The backups are excellent."
"The performance is good."
"It's great that the database engine is always on."
"The interface for building the queries or writing the store procedures is good."
"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."
"In Poland, SQL Server is the most popular database engine, and overall, our customers like it."
"One of the most valuable features of SQL Server is that it's easy to use."
"The solution should have a more user-friendly user interface."
"The performance degrades when the data is huge."
"The solution's stability can be improved."
"Indexing, as well as integration, are areas of this product that need improvement."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"From a development perspective, the solution needs to be a lot easier to understand or it needs to be easier to implement API packages for connection pooling so we don't have connection interruptions when, let's say, a hundred people simultaneously access the network on a given system, utilizing a specific or single database."
"There are a lot of improvements in the cloud space about which we open a case with Microsoft every now and then. These improvements are not in terms of features or functionality. They are more related to their own compatibility or connectivity on which they keep on working to improve the product."
"SQL Server could be improved with cheaper licensing because it's very expensive."
"Price could be cheaper, and access to reporting tools should be better."
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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