[ MS SQL Reviews ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) [ MS SQL Reviews ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) # Microsoft SQL Server Features ##### ## Database Features (7) Storage Availability Stability Scalability Security Data Manipulation Query Language Show More ##### ## Database (3) Real-Time Data Collection Collects, stores, and organizes massive, unstructured data in real time Data Distribution Facilitates the disseminating of collected big data throughout parallel computing clusters Data Lake Creates a repository to collect and store raw data from sensors, devices, machines, files, etc. Show More ##### ## Integrations (2) Hadoop Integration Aligns processing and distribution workflows on top of Apache Hadoop Spark Integration Aligns processing and distribution workflows on top of Apache Hadoop Show More ##### ## Platform (3) Machine Scaling Facilitates solution to run on and scale to a large number of machines and systems Data Preparation Curates collected data for big data analytics solutions to analyze, manipulate, and model Spark Integration Aligns processing and distribution workflows on top of Apache Hadoop Show More ##### ## Processing (2) Cloud Processing Moves big data collection and processing to the cloud Workload Processing Processes batch, real-time, and streaming data workloads in singular, multi-tenant, or cloud systems Show More ##### ## Maintenance (3) Data Migration Allows data movement from one database to another. Backup and Recovery Provides data backup and recovery functionality to protect and restore a database. Multi-User Environment Allows users to access and work on data concurrently, supporting several views of the data. Show More ##### ## Management (5) Data dictionary Stores the database metadata, that is the definitions of data elements, types, relationships etc. Data Replication Creates a copy of the database to maintain consistency and integrity. Query Language Allows users to create, update and retrieve data in a database. Data Modeling Defines the logical design of the data before building the schemas. Performance Analysis Monitors and analyzes critical database attributes like query performance, user sessions, dead lock detail, system errors etc and visualize them on a custom dashboard. Show More ##### ## Security (6) Data Encryption Encrypts and transforms data at the database from a readable state into a ciphertext of unreadable characters. User Access Control Allows restricted user acess to modify depending on the access level. Database Locking Prevents other users and applications from accessing data while it is being updated to avoid data loss or update. Access Control Allows permissions to be granted or revoked in the database, schema or table levels. Encryption Built-in native encryption with enterprise key management. Authentication Provides multi-factor authentication with certificates. Show More ##### ## Support (4) Text Search Provides support for international character sets and full text search. Data Types Supports multiple data types like primitive, structured, document etc. Languages Supports multiple procedural programming languages like PL/PGSQL, Perl, Python etc. Operating Systems Available on multiple operating systems like Linux, Windows, MacOS etc. Show More ##### ## Performance (5) Disaster Recovery Provides data recovery functionality to protect and restore data in a database. Data Concurrency Allows multi-version concurrency control. Workload Management Handles workloads, from single machines to data warehouses or web services with many concurrent users. Advanced Indexing Allows users to quickly retrieve data through various types of indexing like B-tree, hash table etc. Query Optimizer Helps interpret SQL queries and determine the fastest method of execution. Show More ##### ## Management (4) Data Schema Data is organized as a set of tables with columns and rows like a table structure. Query Language Allows users to create, update and retrieve data in a database. ACID - Complaint Adheres to ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability), a set of database transaction properties. Data Replication Provides log-based or/and trigger-based replication. 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