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."We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"Its speed is great."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"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."
"It is easy to scale."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"It is fairly easy to work with. I like the high-availability options, like mirroring for example, and the high-availability groups."
"SQL Server and their offers are very good. You can switch over, export, and do other things."
"For me, the initial setup is very easy as I have years of experience with the product."
"We use it for our on-premises solutions, virtual servers and SSAS, SSRS packages. Also, our applications are .NET based, so it made to use it."
"It is secure, and it is fast. For our present database size, we are using the Always-On feature on SQL Server so that our transactions are replicated among three servers. If one server goes down, we can find the data from other servers. We have benefited from this feature."
"I've been using SQL Server for 20 years, and there is nothing that it can't do. It is awesome."
"It is quite reliable in cluster configurations and has helped me to reduce downtime and improve SLAs."
"The fact that SQL Server fully integrates within the entire Microsoft ecosystem is a plus."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"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."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"We want to move to Azure, and the solution could be made better to make the process easier for the migration from on-premise to the cloud."
"As a software developer, it can be hard to do something in Oracle that is SQL Server specific, and vice-versa, sometimes."
"The performance needs some improvement and it needs more features integrated into it."
"When we are talking about event space architecture, scalability generally comes into play. For example, I might have a hundred thousand transactions a second, and then all of a sudden, I build something that everybody in the world wants. The next thing I know is that I have a million transactions a second. So, to be able to process the throughput, I'd have to scale up, and then when the holidays are over, I'm again down to a hundred thousand transactions, and I want to scale back down. SQL Server is not going to do that. In this way, it is not very scalable. One of the reasons why they want us to use Kafka is so that if we need to, we can do that, but our base program is on SQL Server. So, this is where we would use a Kafka event stack so that if I need more servers, I can just write a command, and I can have more consumers, more brokers, and more producers, and when the holiday season is over, it scales right back down again. SQL Server is not going to do that."
"I would like to see native plugins built for other platforms versus having to buy third-party plugins to tap into S3 buckets and AWS Cloud. Right now, it does not have those built-in plugins."
"While this is a reliable product, it has room for improvement."
"You do need to have technical knowledge in order to install the solution. It's not something a layperson can do."
"As we have faced problems with the solution in both the past and present, I feel it could be more stable."
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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