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."Its speed is great."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"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."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"SQL Server is quite user-friendly. I have experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL, so out of three, I like SQL Server a lot."
"Stability is one of the most valuable features."
"SQL Server is similar to other Microsoft products, such as BI, they are easy to use. You do not need to have an expensive BD to maintain them. All the useful intuitive features you find in Microsoft solutions you will find in SQL Server."
"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."
"Very easy to use, and it's very democratic in the enterprise."
"SQL Server is very scalable because we use it across a couple of different types of applications, such as micro-infrastructure setup and server farm."
"SQL Server is definitely easy to use, and with the volume that we have, it's also stable."
"The stability is fine, especially if you're hosting it on AWS or Azure. You can get up to 99.99% stability on AWS."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"Their support could be better. There should be more visibility on the progress of the ticket, and their last line of support should be more knowledgeable. Other than that, we have nothing to complain about."
"While using it, we really didn't experience any pain points."
"I would like to see better integration between their link server and other platforms, such as IBM."
"SQL Server could improve by enhancing the integration abilities, adding more inbuilt data security features, and simplifying the maintenance."
"Sometimes we experience issues with its stability."
"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."
"In some cases it is quite difficult, like the lack of ease of the replication and other issues. They have to improve on that. They do not have features like "always on," which is complicated."
"SQL Server doesn't have proper bitmap indexing, proper columnar databases, or proper implementation of materialized views."
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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