We performed a comparison between MariaDB 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.
"We like the easy way that we can collect data from other databases."
"From a customer perspective, MariaDB is a good choice for cluster configuration. It's also easy to operate and cheap."
"The most valuable feature is that it uses multiple cores, which is better than some of the other databases."
"MariaDB is easy to install and is stable and scalable."
"Installation is straightforward."
"The solution runs very quickly. It's not slow at all."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"It's easy to set up."
"Stability is one of the most valuable features."
"The product has very good online documentation that can be used for troubleshooting."
"Very stable relational database management system that offers ease of management, querying, and scaling. It has well-designed databases."
"The installation is pretty straightforward."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The initial setup is easy, flawless."
"I like that it's relatively stable."
"The solution seems to be pretty flexible."
"The GUI could be improved a bit. The user interface needs to be improved."
"The solution can improve by having support for more integration. However, at this time it is working well for us."
"The maintenance and performance could be a bit better."
"It does not have tools for debugging procedures and functions."
"The solution should do some fine-tuning on maybe the transaction per second so that users can get more than they can on the Microsoft SQL Server."
"Replication could be better, and it's not so simple. It would be better if they had a replication server. It would make things a lot easier. You need to have that replication server, but not in the same server farm. Then there will be a bit of latency between both because you should have one in one city and another one in a different city. That kind of solution should be more baked into every single database today. Mirroring the database in a live environment where any record written on the production server replicates instantly across the fiber on the other server wasn't easy. Many people don't even bother with that, and they just run one server."
"Could have more integration with user platforms."
"MariaDB can improve by adding more features. There are a lot of features, which are available in Oracle, and which are not available in MariaDB. We hope they will introduce the features soon."
"If this solution could provide an automatic indexing feature it would be very useful."
"The interface integration could be better."
"I do not think SQL Server is suited for a typical database warehouse environment. However, people do use SQL Server for data warehouse environments but the best use case is for very small databases. If somebody wants to store more than 10 TB of data querying then the performance really degrades. The performance should be improved in the future to allow more scalability."
"SQL Server could improve by being more user-friendly, it is still geared towards specialists. Additionally, the monitoring system is difficult to use, not everyone can use it well. The configuration should be able to be done through the GUI."
"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."
"SQL Server could improve by providing something similar to an interface or dashboard where a developer can do debugging, this would make a developer's work easier. Additionally, the optimization could be better. If there was an interface showing information needed for the optimization it would help because there can be some data loss making it difficult to optimize the SQL Server."
"The treatment of database storage could be improved."
"I want to see one improvement and this involves the replication between the DC and DR."
MariaDB is ranked 7th in Relational Databases Tools with 22 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 165 reviews. MariaDB is rated 8.4, while SQL Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Provides great database for systems monitoring data and performance stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Good performance, well-priced, trivial to set up, and helpful support". MariaDB is most compared with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle Database, Firebird SQL and Amazon Aurora, whereas SQL Server is most compared with Oracle Database, SAP HANA, LocalDB, IBM Db2 Database and MySQL. See our MariaDB vs. SQL Server report.
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