DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server System Properties

Please select another system to compare it with Microsoft SQL Server.

Our visitors often compare Microsoft SQL Server with MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Microsofts relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1031.23
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Microsoft

Initial release

1989

Current release

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

Navicat Monitor is a safe, simple and agentless remote server monitoring tool for SQL Server and many other database management systems.

Navicat for SQL Server gives you a fully graphical approach to database management and development.

DBHawk: Secure access to SQL, NoSQL and Cloud databases with an all-in-one solution.

General SQL Parser: Instantly adding parsing, decoding, analysis and rewrite SQL processing capability to your products.

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL is the DBMS of the Year 2019
3 January 2020, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

The struggle for the hegemony in Oracle's database empire
2 May 2017, Paul Andlinger

Microsoft SQL Server is the DBMS of the Year
4 January 2017, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

SQL Server Linux from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
15 January 2021, Packt Hub

Security Updates for SQL Server Jan 2021–CVE-2021-1636 from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
14 January 2021, Packt Hub

Diamanti Provides Fastest Microsoft SQL Server Performance at the Lowest TCO
12 January 2021, Yahoo Finance

Security update for all supported versions of SQL Server (CVE-2021-1636) from Blog Posts – SQLServerCentral
13 January 2021, Packt Hub

Diamanti blows AWS and Azure away on containerised SQL Server benchmark
18 December 2020, Blocks and Files

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

SQL Server DBA
Deloitte, Davenport, IA

SQL Server DBA
CompTech Computer Technologies, Remote

SQL Server DBA
Accenture, United States

Customer Success Representative
Jonas Software, Jackson, MS

SQL Server Development Engineer - Associate I
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Columbus, OH

jobs by

Share this page