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"
"It's a flexible solution."
"Microsoft SQL Server is one of the better database administration software packages out there. It runs primarily on Windows Server platforms, but it can also run on Linux platforms."
"Enables us to convert to bigger DBs and more easily move or upgrade between branches."
"We have found the solution valuable because we are able to easily create a query, shrink, backup, and make new tables."
"What I like most is the management, as it is very easy compared with other products."
"SQL Server is definitely easy to use, and with the volume that we have, it's also stable."
"The solution offers very high performance."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is that it's integrated with the Visual Studio and also with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. It's a tool they have and it's quite easy to use and understand. It's the interface for programming for SQL Services."
"Only the data from the columns that reached 2GB will actually decrease. Other columns below 2GB in size do not leave the disk."
"One stability issue I encountered was the deadlocking between calls to the same resources (tables, etc.). That was solved by row versioning."
"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."
"We experience latency at times when there is a lot of data being processed."
"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."
"When we run into problems, it's usually during installation, and finding answers to the problem has been a nightmare because the documentation is terrible."
"The scalability could be better."
"The only item which I can list is application failure during Integration Services debugging, when restarting a process flow. In a number of instances the solutions fails. I have not given this much thought and simply stop and start the debugging service rather than restarting."
"The solution could offer more integration with other platforms."
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Infobright DB is ranked 30th in Relational Databases Tools while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 245 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 "A stable, scalable, and easy-to-deploy solution that pretty much covers everything". Infobright DB is most compared with MySQL and LocalDB, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, IBM Db2 Database and LocalDB.
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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.