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 speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"It is easy to scale."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"I like the availability group functionality. We are setting up more clusters using availability groups. The enterprise licensing or Software Assurance makes it a little bit cheaper as well. It is nice to have that read-only copy for reporting and everything else."
"Excel integration is one of its most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are programmability and reliability."
"The solution is very intuitive and easy to use."
"We have found the solution to be scalable."
"It's much more friendly in comparison with Oracle."
"The product is easy to use."
"We have many users, between 50 and 100 using the SQL Server product."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"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."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"I would like Microsoft to evolve SQL Server because stateful databases dying are in a way. We would like to find out if it can absorb Hadoop and other similar things. They should make it useful for data mining. Data is evolving forever, and how we store it is also changing constantly. So, SQL Server also needs to change."
"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."
"Its security can be improved. When you look at the Windows environment, it isn't the most secure environment. It is exposed to so many attacks. They continuously need to improve the security of the platform on which it sits."
"While this is a reliable product, it has room for improvement."
"The maintenance and tasks should be improved so as to reduce database files."
"The solution is rather expensive."
"Linux-based editions are not yet proven to be on par with Windows deployments."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for SQL Server."
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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