We performed a comparison between Exasol 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."The speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"Its speed is great."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"It is easy to scale."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"This solution is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"There is no lack of features."
"SQL is very easy to manage."
"The security and vulnerability management are well-managed through the vendor."
"If backups and alerts are configured properly, I can also rely on my restoration plan."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"If you need to, you can scale the solution very easily."
"The pricing of the product is very good."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"Performance could be improved. There could be more support to PHP-based websites and to providing direct plugins for connections, and the related services or application services could be improved."
"Improvements to the indexing, columnstore indexing, and high availability groups are good improvements for future versions."
"Database support could be improved."
"If this solution could provide an automatic indexing feature it would be very useful."
"In the next releases, I would only like more enhanced backups and more restore points."
"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."
"The remote access aspect needs to be improved in terms of security."
"SQL Server could integrate better with other platforms."
Exasol is ranked 12th in Relational Databases Tools with 8 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Exasol is rated 8.0, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Exasol writes "Fast query processing and easy-to-store all the data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Exasol is most compared with SAP HANA, Vertica, Oracle Database In-Memory, MySQL and Oracle Database, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database. See our Exasol vs. SQL Server report.
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