We performed a comparison between MariaDB and SQL Server based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: MariaDB is the winner when it comes to ease of use, initial setup and price. SQL Server comes out on top when it comes to performance, scalability, and support.
"The most valuable feature of MariaDB is the power it provides. It is a powerful solution."
"I like the global transaction IDs (GTIDs) feature. It's quite reliable for replication between a master and a replica server, and it's a feature that MySQL also has but implemented differently."
"It is an absolutely stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of MariaDB is the replication mode."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is a relational database, which is fairly reliable...It is a stable solution."
"The solution's high availability is its most valuable aspect."
"MariaDB can solve things better than MySQL. Maria DB has better performance than MySQL."
"This solution is user-friendly."
"It is easy to use and easy to perform a backup."
"I use the menu on the management view credit section to get information from the database."
"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."
"Scalability, cluster ability, ease of use, ease of implementation — these are all great."
"Its speed and the ease of server management are valuable. If I compare Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL, what I like in Microsoft SQL Server is the speed. We are using Microsoft Management Studio for managing our Microsoft SQL Server, and the user interface that I get to work with is also better."
"Its availability for a secured server is one of its most valuable features. Also its replications - we can manage eight replicas. Their clustering and availability groups are also valuable."
"The most valuable features are programmability and reliability."
"The product is easy to use."
"One feedback I can quickly provide is the need for a robust IDE for MongoDB. The existing PHP admin console doesn't meet the client's requirements effectively."
"Integration with AWS could be improved."
"I am editing."
"The product needs more features and more functionality. It's imperative that it supports more platforms, and supports more operating systems."
"There is room for improvement in terms of security."
"The configuration could be improved. It should be easier."
"The dashboard and pricing need improvement."
"It would be good if they can maybe improve the mass import in the database. Currently, for importing a large number of data, we create a CSV file and upload all the things in the system. The system does not activate them by default. We have to do this manually. This may be due to the version we are using, but this is something we would like to see improved."
"The Management Studio is a pretty heavy piece of software, and it's sometimes slow. I would recommend making an express version of the Management Studio, which is lighter and has fewer features but is a little faster."
"The tool is expensive."
"There should be more tools and documentation for tuning the performance of Microsoft SQL Server. It would be nice to have more tools for tuning because currently, all the tuning that we have to do with our databases is almost manual. We have to read a bunch of knowledge base articles, and this information should be better documented. Its free text search should also be improved. It is quite important for us. Currently, we're developing our own free text search because of the lacking flexibility in Microsoft SQL Server. Therefore, we're kind of using elastic search and making different implementations in order to reach our targets. Using just the native free text search of Microsoft SQL Server is not enough for us. It should have more flexible features as compared to the current version."
"The way SQL Server pivots data could be improved. For example, I would like built-in comma-separated pivot and unpivot functions."
"It would be great if we were able to run it on multiple operating systems and not only stick with Windows."
"The backup capacity needs to be bigger."
"There is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to limited compatibility across the platform and restricted performance with massive data sets."
"The solution’s initial setup could be complex, requiring some design of how you want to lay everything out and what type of storage you want to put certain things on."
MariaDB is ranked 5th in Relational Databases Tools with 51 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. MariaDB is rated 8.2, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Simultaneously use active server capabilities but lacks the maturity ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". MariaDB is most compared with Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, Firebird SQL, MySQL and Percona Server, whereas SQL Server is most compared with SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB, IBM Db2 Database and Teradata. See our MariaDB vs. SQL Server report.
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