"Replication is a valuable feature and easy to use."
"So far, we do not have a lot of issues. It's pretty problem-free."
"The scalability is very good."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The stability is incredible. I have customers with uptimes of several years."
"The solution's stability, performance, enhanced functionality, and replication are all great features."
"SQL is stable."
"We're satisfied with the stability."
"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."
"Backups hardly get corrupt."
"This solution is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"I have found the whole solution with all its features wonderful."
"SQL Server and their offers are very good. You can switch over, export, and do other things."
"I believe Always On is the most valuable feature. It's also easy to use and not very tricky."
"The solution lacks some functionality."
"The solution really doesn't add new features very often."
"I would like to see backups from secondary servers."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"This product could be made easier to use for beginners."
"There should be more intelligence surrounding discovering data to be able to automatically create indexes."
"For small-scale businesses, Microsoft could improve by removing some limits in SQL Express."
"SQL Server could be improved with cheaper licensing because it's very expensive."
"We would like to have a common storage option in the SQL Server. This option is available in Oracle Database. It would be great if Microsoft could create something like a columnstore that has not only indexing but also tables for common storage."
"We experience latency at times when there is a lot of data being processed."
"I am fine with the pricing, but pricing is an area that can always be improved."
"The way SQL Server pivots data could be improved. For example, I would like built-in comma-separated pivot and unpivot functions."
"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."
"We have no vision. We don't know when or how we have been hacked."
IBM Informix is ranked 8th in Relational Databases with 7 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases with 172 reviews. IBM Informix is rated 9.0, while SQL Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Informix writes "Quite stable and flexible but not very innovative". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Good performance, well-priced, trivial to set up, and helpful support". IBM Informix is most compared with Oracle Database, IBM Db2 Database, MySQL, Oracle Database In-Memory and Teradata, whereas SQL Server is most compared with SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB, IBM Db2 Database and Vertica. See our IBM Informix vs. SQL Server report.
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