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IBM solidDB vs SQL Server comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM solidDB
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
39th
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
6.5
Number of Reviews
276
Ranking in other categories
Database Management Systems (DBMS) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of IBM solidDB is 1.3%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SQL Server is 10.3%, down from 15.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SQL Server10.3%
IBM solidDB1.3%
Other88.4%
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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.
Shakti Gupta - PeerSpot reviewer
SQL server database administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Hybrid data platform has strengthened performance, security, and incident response for production
SQL Server is very mature, but I see areas for improvement, especially in performance tuning, troubleshooting, and automation. Although tools such as Query Store and dynamic management views are powerful, some troubleshooting tasks still require senior SQL Server database administrator expertise. It would be valuable to have more intelligent, built-in recommendations for root cause analysis, indexing, blocking, and query optimization. I would also like to see simplified and consistent management across on-premises SQL Server and Azure SQL services, as managing hybrid environments sometimes requires different tools and approaches. Finally, improved patching, updates, monitoring, and cost and license transparency could make SQL Server easier to manage at the enterprise scale. One area I would improve in SQL Server is its documentation and troubleshooting guidance. SQL Server documentation is comprehensive, but for complex production issues, I would like to see more real-world troubleshooting examples, especially for scenarios such as Always On synchronization issues, blocking and deadlocks, performance degradation, and upgrade features.

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."
"SQL Server is very powerful and useful when you need to store, retrieve, process, and analyze a large amount of data."
"It is a stable product, and it runs seamlessly. It is not complex."
"What I like most is the management, as it is very easy compared with other products."
"SQL SSIS is the most useful aspect of the solution."
"It is a first-class enterprise RDBMS and will continue to enjoy favourable sentiment from developers and DBAs."
"The solution is valuable because it seamlessly extracts reports and enables the collection of information from different tables."
"SQL's performance is good enough if you have a low amount of data."
"SQL Server is quite stable. And now we are using the Lattice 2017 version."
 

Cons

"Data replication and data distribution between multiple nodes definitely have room for improvement here."
"The configuration process can be a little complex."
"It's not scalable. It hinders your performance as it's slow in nature and you need experienced people to work on it."
"Query optimitzer could be simplified."
"The scalability is adequate but could improve."
"SQL Server backups could be better."
"If you are a new user then this solution could be difficult, they could improve by making the overall usage easier."
"From a development perspective, the solution needs to be a lot easier to understand or it needs to be easier to implement API packages for connection pooling so we don't have connection interruptions when, let's say, a hundred people simultaneously access the network on a given system, utilizing a specific or single database."
"I would like the SQL Server to be able to provide cloud support. We use the solution with a Korean provider supporting only MySQL rather than Microsoft SQL Server, which would be preferable and cheaper. This would prevent us from having to pay for troubleshooting and hosting the server."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The areas that need improvement are with regards to the commercial aspect of the solution, the licensing cost could be reduced in order to help customers to adopt it."
"The price has been going higher and higher. The market is quite price sensitive."
"The product's price is reasonable."
"It requires the purchase of a license."
"For licensing, we pay yearly. The licensing is very expensive, and it should be cheaper."
"The price could always be lower."
"Licensing fees increase depending on size and performance. If you want higher performance, you should go for a different course."
"The pricing from Microsoft is quite expensive compared to Oracle."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
34%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business119
Midsize Enterprise60
Large Enterprise122
 

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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...
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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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