MSSQL Server

Based on 5740 responses from 1032 people, we've built up the following picture of MSSQL Server

Ranked high for:

  1. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  2. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  3. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  4. I am familiar with this database
  5. This database has a good story for replication
  6. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  7. This database is highly scalable
  8. This database is very reliable
  9. This database is good for querying time series
  10. This database is good at high concurrency reads

Ranked low for:

  1. This database has a low footprint
  2. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  3. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  4. This database has an unusual data model
  5. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  6. This database is very easy to get started with
  7. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  8. This database has a very flexible data model
  9. This database has a good community around it
  10. This database can be a bit arcane

Most similar to

  1. Oracle
  2. DB2
  3. PostgreSQL
  4. Sybase
  5. BigTable

Most dissimilar from

  1. Flat files
  2. Sqlite
  3. dbm
  4. Derby
  5. h2

All statements

  1. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  2. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  3. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  4. I am familiar with this database
  5. This database has a good story for replication
  6. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  7. This database is highly scalable
  8. This database is very reliable
  9. This database is good for querying time series
  10. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  11. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  12. This database has very good write performance
  13. This database is good for querying graph structures
  14. This database has very good read performance
  15. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  16. This database has a very restrictive data model
  17. This database can be a bit arcane
  18. This database has a good community around it
  19. This database has a very flexible data model
  20. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  21. This database is very easy to get started with
  22. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  23. This database has an unusual data model
  24. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  25. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  26. This database has a low footprint