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IBM solidDB vs SQL Server comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM solidDB
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
36th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SQL Server
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
274
Ranking in other categories
Database Management Systems (DBMS) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of IBM solidDB is 1.0%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SQL Server is 10.5%, down from 16.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SQL Server10.5%
IBM solidDB1.0%
Other88.5%
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Featured Reviews

it_user722241 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
​No other solution came close to this product's speed and tech support is on a really high level
If you need local DB cache with extreme speed, then go for it, if you need something to work as a distributed cloud database, then solidDB would not be the right decision. With our Telco experience, we help with suggestions for new features and improvements of existing ones for new versions of solidDB. Also, in our labs, we do some pre-alpha testing to help them to complete some new features in the right way.
Peter Larsson - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Warehouse Lead at Resurs Bank AB (publ.)
Ledger and seamless integrations have strengthened trusted analytics and unified workloads
SQL Server's high availability and disaster recovery features work for supporting mission-critical applications, but there is much more to wish for. These features are not quite ready yet, although they do function. However, they could be significantly better. High availability and disaster recovery features should be improved in the next releases. I have noticed that everything could be improved or enhanced in the future, particularly temporal tables and window functions. Sometimes, I believe Microsoft releases features to stay ahead of competitors, but they do not make them feature-rich or feature-complete. They release something to be ahead of leaders and then seem to forget to maintain and upgrade them. I want Microsoft to pay more attention and be more mindful about the things they implement. It is fine to do a first release that works, but you cannot simply abandon it in the following years without service packs and improvements. You must continue to build on features rather than forgetting about them.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Memory cache DB and carrier grade high availability, best fit to Telco demands."
"One of the things I most like about SQL Server is the log shipping piece. This is a great feature."
"It is widely used and we never have problems with it."
"SQL is stable."
"I would absolutely recommend this solution to others."
"The ability to organize and structure our data in order to extract and provide it to various products and systems within our organization."
"If backups and alerts are configured properly, I can also rely on my restoration plan."
"A great DBMS for organizations of all sizes."
"SQL Server has a dynamic resource allocation feature that allows disk and memory usage to scale to meet changing database demands, providing better performance and simplifying software management."
 

Cons

"Data replication and data distribution between multiple nodes definitely have room for improvement here."
"But I don't have a hundred percent trust in Microsoft products."
"SQL Server could be more robust than one of its competitors."
"They have too many licensing options. They may want to simplify its licensing and bring it down to two, three, or four categories from ten to fifteen categories. Having so many different licensing options makes it difficult to decide which one to choose from. They can club things together. This is an area where they can make things easier for customers."
"One thing I don't like about SQL Server is the way they've set up security with users and groups. It just doesn't seem that intuitive to me. Adding some more explanatory information might help some."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"The way to make cursors and manage raw data in rows can be improved."
"The backup capacity needs to be bigger."
"There is always some place for improvements. Statistics could be better (2 table statistic), or dynamic partition function, but that is probably true with every other product."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There is a license required for this solution and we pay monthly. The price is reasonable compared to other solutions."
"On a scale of one to ten, when one is cheap and ten is an expensive solution, I rate the product price as seven. The product is expensive."
"The price could always be lower."
"We purchased our license and the pricing is fine for us."
"As compared to Oracle Database, SQL Server is less expensive. For mid-sized organizations, SQL Server is completely all right, but people say it can't support large organizations with more than 2,000 users."
"It's cheaper than Oracle."
"I believe the licensing to be on an annual basis."
"The product's price is reasonable."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
38%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
4%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business119
Midsize Enterprise60
Large Enterprise118
 

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Would you say the price of SQL Server is high compared to that of similar products?
SQL Server is fairly priced because it has various editions, depending on the number of users, servers, or core packs you are using. If you compare the product to others in this category, the price...
Has using SQL Server helped your organization in any way?
SQL Server has helped my organization through partitioning to distribute the workload, as it splits them up into smaller pieces so the machines can easily deal with it. However, this comes with a h...
Which authentication mode is best for SQL Server?
My company connects through SQL Server authentication. We have company Windows accounts, but we do not want to connect the two, out of security concerns and to keep things separated for our own pur...
 

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Also Known As

solidDB
Microsoft SQL Server, MSSQL, MS SQL
 

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