Microsoft SQL Server Features

Collects, stores, and organizes massive, unstructured data in real time

Facilitates the disseminating of collected big data throughout parallel computing clusters

Creates a repository to collect and store raw data from sensors, devices, machines, files, etc.

Aligns processing and distribution workflows on top of Apache Hadoop

Aligns processing and distribution workflows on top of Apache Hadoop

Facilitates solution to run on and scale to a large number of machines and systems

Curates collected data for big data analytics solutions to analyze, manipulate, and model

Aligns processing and distribution workflows on top of Apache Hadoop

Moves big data collection and processing to the cloud

Processes batch, real-time, and streaming data workloads in singular, multi-tenant, or cloud systems

Allows data movement from one database to another.

Provides data backup and recovery functionality to protect and restore a database.

Allows users to access and work on data concurrently, supporting several views of the data.

Stores the database metadata, that is the definitions of data elements, types, relationships etc.

Creates a copy of the database to maintain consistency and integrity.

Allows users to create, update and retrieve data in a database.

Defines the logical design of the data before building the schemas.

Monitors and analyzes critical database attributes like query performance, user sessions, dead lock detail, system errors etc and visualize them on a custom dashboard.

Encrypts and transforms data at the database from a readable state into a ciphertext of unreadable characters.

Allows restricted user acess to modify depending on the access level.

Prevents other users and applications from accessing data while it is being updated to avoid data loss or update.

Allows permissions to be granted or revoked in the database, schema or table levels.

Built-in native encryption with enterprise key management.

Provides multi-factor authentication with certificates.

Provides support for international character sets and full text search.

Supports multiple data types like primitive, structured, document etc.

Supports multiple procedural programming languages like PL/PGSQL, Perl, Python etc.

Available on multiple operating systems like Linux, Windows, MacOS etc.

Provides data recovery functionality to protect and restore data in a database.

Allows multi-version concurrency control.

Handles workloads, from single machines to data warehouses or web services with many concurrent users.

Allows users to quickly retrieve data through various types of indexing like B-tree, hash table etc.

Helps interpret SQL queries and determine the fastest method of execution.

Data is organized as a set of tables with columns and rows like a table structure.

Allows users to create, update and retrieve data in a database.

Adheres to ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability), a set of database transaction properties.

Provides log-based or/and trigger-based replication.