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Hadoop vs Microsoft SQL Server

Hadoop
267 Ratings
Microsoft SQL Server
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Hadoop

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Score 8.5 out of 100

Based on 267 reviews and ratings

Microsoft SQL Server

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Score 8.9 out of 100

Based on 1469 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • Apache Hadoop is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Renew
  • Microsoft SQL Server is rated higher in 5 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Performance, Support Rating, Online Training

Likelihood to Recommend

8.3

Hadoop

83%
37 Ratings
9.1

Microsoft SQL Server

91%
94 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

9.6

Hadoop

96%
8 Ratings
9.0

Microsoft SQL Server

90%
6 Ratings

Usability

8.5

Hadoop

85%
5 Ratings
9.8

Microsoft SQL Server

98%
10 Ratings

Availability

Hadoop

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0

Microsoft SQL Server

100%
2 Ratings

Performance

8.0

Hadoop

80%
2 Ratings
9.0

Microsoft SQL Server

90%
2 Ratings

Support Rating

7.4

Hadoop

74%
6 Ratings
7.9

Microsoft SQL Server

79%
49 Ratings

In-Person Training

Hadoop

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0

Microsoft SQL Server

90%
1 Rating

Online Training

6.1

Hadoop

61%
2 Ratings
9.0

Microsoft SQL Server

90%
1 Rating

Implementation Rating

Hadoop

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0

Microsoft SQL Server

90%
10 Ratings

Product Scalability

Hadoop

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0

Microsoft SQL Server

90%
1 Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

Hadoop

Altogether, I want to say that Apache Hadoop is well-suited to a larger and unstructured data flow like an aggregation of web traffic or even advertising. I think Apache Hadoop is great when you literally have petabytes of data that need to be stored and processed on an ongoing basis. Also, I would recommend that the software should be supplemented with a faster and interactive database for a better querying service. Lastly, it's very cost-effective so it is good to give it a shot before coming to any conclusion.

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Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a great RDBMS and meets all of our requirements. If you need a stable DB platform to support your line of a business application you'll be well served. Licensing costs are far cheaper, more portable and a lot more user friendly than Oracle. Product support and security patches from Microsoft are strong.

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Pros

Hadoop

  • Handles large amounts of unstructured data well, for business level purposes
  • Is a good catchall because of this design, i.e. what does not fit into our vertical tables fits here.
  • Decent for large ETL pipelines and logging free-for-alls because of this, also.

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Microsoft SQL Server

  • Easy to configure and use with Visual Studio and Dot Net
  • Easy integration with MSBI to perform data analysis
  • Data Security
  • Easy to understand and use
  • Very easy to export database and tables in the form of SQL query or a script

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Cons

Hadoop

  • Less organizational support system. Bugs need to be fixed and outside help take a long time to push updates
  • Not for small data sets
  • Data security needs to be ramped up
  • Failure in NameNode has no replication which takes a lot of time to recover

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Microsoft SQL Server

  • The import/export process can be tricky to follow with lots of steps and could be better for importing flat files
  • Obtaining help from Microsoft is cumbersome and often other internet sources are better and quicker
  • The documentation is not great and again it's generally better to obtain help elsewhere if needed

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Pricing Details

Hadoop

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

—

Hadoop Editions & Modules

—
Additional Pricing Details
—

Microsoft SQL Server

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$0 Per License

Microsoft SQL Server Editions & Modules

Edition
Enterprise$13,748.001
Subscription$1,418.001
  1. Per License
Additional Pricing Details
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Likelihood to Renew

Hadoop

Hadoop 9.6
Based on 8 answers
Hadoop is organization-independent and can be used for various purposes ranging from archiving to reporting and can make use of economic, commodity hardware. There is also a lot of saving in terms of licensing costs - since most of the Hadoop ecosystem is available as open-source and is free

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Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 9.0
Based on 6 answers
We understand that the Microsoft SQL Server will continue to advance, offering the same robust and reliable platform while adding new features that enable us, as a software center, to create a superior product. That provides excellent performance while reducing the hardware requirements and the total cost of ownership of our solution.

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Usability

Hadoop

Hadoop 8.5
Based on 5 answers
Great! Hadoop has an easy to use interface that mimics most other data warehouses. You can access your data via SQL and have it display in a terminal before exporting it to your business intelligence platform of choice. Of course, for smaller data sets, you can also export it to Microsoft Excel.

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Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 9.8
Based on 10 answers
SQL Server mostly 'just works' or generates error messages to help you sort out the trouble. You can usually count on the product to get the job done and keep an eye on your potential mistakes. Interaction with other Microsoft products makes operating as a Windows user pretty straight forward. Digging through the multitude of dialogs and wizards can be a pain, but the answer is usually there somewhere.

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Reliability and Availability

Hadoop

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 10.0
Based on 2 answers
Its does not have outages.

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Performance

Hadoop

Hadoop 8.0
Based on 2 answers
No answer on this topic is available.

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 9.0
Based on 2 answers
SSAS data cubes may some time slow down your Excel reports.

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Srikanth S | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Support Rating

Hadoop

Hadoop 7.4
Based on 6 answers
We went with a third party for support, i.e., consultant. Had we gone with Azure or Cloudera, we would have obtained support directly from the vendor. my rating is more on the third party we selected and doesn't reflect the overall support available for Hadoop. I think we could have done better in our selection process, however, we were trying to use an already approved vendor within our organization. There is plenty of self-help available for Hadoop online.

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Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 7.9
Based on 49 answers
We managed to handle most of our problems by looking into Microsoft's official documentation that has everything explained and almost every function has an example that illustrates in detail how a particular functionality works. Just like PowerShell has the ability to show you an example of how some cmdlet works, that is the case also here, and in my opinion, it is a very good practice and I like it.

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In-Person Training

Hadoop

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 9.0
Based on 1 answer
It was good

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Srikanth S | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Online Training

Hadoop

Hadoop 6.1
Based on 2 answers
Hadoop is a complex topic and best suited for classrom training. Online training are a waste of time and money.

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Bhushan Lakhe | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 9.0
Based on 1 answer
very hands on and detailed training

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Implementation Rating

Hadoop

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 9.0
Based on 10 answers
Other than SQL taking quite a bit of time to actually install there are no problems with installation. Even on hardware that has good performance SQL can still take close to an hour to install a typical server with management and reporting services.

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Alternatives Considered

Hadoop

Not used any other product than Hadoop and I don't think our company will switch to any other product, as Hadoop is providing excellent results. Our company is growing rapidly, Hadoop helps to keep up our performance and meet customer expectations. We also use HDFS which provides very high bandwidth to support MapReduce workloads.

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Microsoft SQL Server

[Microsoft] SQL Server has a much better community and professional support and is overall just a more reliable system with Microsoft behind it. I've used MySQL in the past and SQL Server has just become more comfortable for me and is my go to RDBMS.

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Scalability

Hadoop

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server 9.0
Based on 1 answer
SQL server does handle growing demands of a mid sized company.

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Srikanth S | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

Hadoop

  • There are many advantages of Hadoop as first it has made the management and processing of extremely colossal data very easy and has simplified the lives of so many people including me.
  • Hadoop is quite interesting due to its new and improved features plus innovative functions.

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Chantel Moreno | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Microsoft SQL Server

  • Increased accuracy - We went from multiple users having different versions of an Excel spreadsheet to a single source of truth for our reporting.
  • Increased Efficiency - We can now generate reports at any time from a single source rather than multiple users spending their time collating data and generating reports.
  • Improved Security - Enterprise level security on a dedicated server rather than financial files on multiple laptop hard drives.

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