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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SingleStore

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASingleStore aims to enable organizations to scale from one to one million customers, handling SQL, JSON, full text and vector workloads in one unified platform.

    $0.69

    per hour

    Microsoft SQL Server

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft SQL Server is a relational database.

    $1,418

    Per License

    Pricing
    SingleStoreMicrosoft SQL Server
    Editions & Modules
    OnDemand
    $0.69
    per hour
    Subscription
    $1,418.00
    Per License
    Enterprise
    $13,748.00
    Per License
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SingleStoreMicrosoft SQL Server
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SingleStoreMicrosoft SQL Server
    Considered Both Products
    SingleStore
    Chose SingleStore
    SingleStore is much faster than others in terms of data ingestion and query response time
    Incentivized
    Chose SingleStore
    much faster processing of queries than all above-listed databases and having the ability to scale up according to the workload.
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    73 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    65 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    45 Answers
    Features
    SingleStoreMicrosoft SQL Server
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of SingleStore and Microsoft SQL Server
    Feature
    SingleStore
    6.9
    3 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Microsoft SQL Server
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    Ratings
    ACID compliance5.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking6.63 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery5.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
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    SingleStoreMicrosoft SQL Server
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    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SAP HANA Cloud
    Score8.9 out of 10
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.4 out of 10
    SAP IQ
    Score5.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SingleStoreMicrosoft SQL Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.2
    (76 ratings)
    7.9
    (107 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (12 ratings)
    7.6
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (50 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    7.9
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SingleStoreMicrosoft SQL Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SingleStore
    Good for Applications needing instant insights on large, streaming datasets. Applications processing continuous data streams with low latency. When a multi-cloud, high-availability database is required When NOT to Use Small-scale applications with limited budgets Projects that do not require real-time analytics or distributed scaling Teams without experience in distributed databases and HTAP architectures.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft SQL is ubiquitous, while MySQL runs under the hood all over the place. Microsoft SQL is the platform taught in colleges and certification courses and is the one most likely to be used by businesses because it is backed by Microsoft. Its interface is friendly (well, as pleasant as SQL can be) and has been used by so many for so long that resources are freely available if you encounter any issues.
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    Pros
    SingleStore
    • Technical support is stellar -- far above and beyond anything I've experienced with any other company.
    • When we compared SingleStore to other databases two years ago, we found SingleStore performance to be far superior.
    • Pipeline data ingestion is exceptionally fast.
    • The ability to combine transactional and analytical workloads without compromising performance is very impressive.
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    Microsoft
    • 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
    SingleStore
    • It does not release a patch to have back porting; it just releases a new version and stops support; it's difficult to keep up to that pace.
    • Support engineers lack expertise, but they seem to be improving organically.
    • Lacks enterprise CDC capability: Change data capture (CDC) is a process that tracks and records changes made to data in a database and then delivers those changes to other systems in real time.
    • For enterprise-level backup & restore capability, we had to implement our model via Velero snapshot backup.
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    Microsoft
    • Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition has a high cost but is the only edition which supports SQL Always On Availability Groups. It would be nice to include this feature in the Standard version.
    • Licensing of Microsoft SQL Server is a quite complex matter, it would be good to simplify licensing in the future. For example, per core vs per user CAL licensing, as well as complex licensing scenarios in the Cloud and on Edge locations.
    • It would be good to include native tools for converting Oracle, DB2, Postgresql and MySQL/MariaDB databases (schema and data) for import into Microsoft SQL Server.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SingleStore
    We haven't seen a faster relation database. Period. Which is why we are super happy customers and will for sure renew our license.
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    Microsoft
    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
    SingleStore
    [Until it is] supported on AWS ECS containers, I will reserve a higher rating for SingleStore. Right now it works well on EC2 and serves our current purpose, [but] would look forward to seeing SingleStore respond to our urge of feature in a shorter time period with high quality and security.
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    Microsoft
    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
    SingleStore
    Solutions are based around a business needs and even when implementing such solution, real time insights are also followed through showing the updates the business are implementing while informing the end users as what is new with technology.
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    Microsoft
    Its does not have outages.
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    Performance
    SingleStore
    SingleStore excels in real-time analytics and low-latency transactions, making it ideal for operational analytics and mixed workloads. Snowflake shines in batch analytics and data warehousing with strong scalability for large datasets. SingleStore offers faster data ingestion and query execution for real-time use cases, while Snowflake is better for complex analytical queries on historical data.
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    Microsoft
    SSAS data cubes may some time slow down your Excel reports.
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    Support Rating
    SingleStore
    The support deep dives into our most complexed queries and bizarre issues that sometimes only we get comparing to other clients. Our special workload (thousands of Kafka pipelines + high concurrency of queries). The response match to the priority of the request, P1 gets immediate return call. Missing features are treated, they become a client request and being added to the roadmap after internal consideration on all client needs and priority. Bugs are patched quite fast, depends on the impact and feasible temporary workarounds. There is no issue that we haven't got a proper answer, resolution or reasoning
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    Microsoft
    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
    SingleStore
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    It was good
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    Online Training
    SingleStore
    Would prefer in person training but for online training, it's almost as good as in person
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    Microsoft
    very hands on and detailed training
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    Implementation Rating
    SingleStore
    We allowed 2-3 months for a thorough evaluation. We saw pretty quickly that we were likely to pick SingleStore, so we ported some of our stored procedures to SingleStore in order to take a deeper look. Two SingleStore people worked closely with us to ensure that we did not have any blocking problems. It all went remarkably smoothly.
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    Microsoft
    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
    SingleStore
    Greenplum is good in handling very large amount of data. Concurrency in Greenplum was a major problem. Features available in SingleStore like Pipelines and in memory features are not available in Greenplum. Gemfire was not scaling well like SingleStore. Support of both Greenplum and Gemfire was not good. Product team did not help us much like the ones in SingleStore who helped us getting started on our first cluster very fast.
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    Microsoft
    [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
    SingleStore
    Very reliable. Coming from mariadb, singlestore has made our application more reliable and faster!
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    Microsoft
    SQL server does handle growing demands of a mid sized company.
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    Return on Investment
    SingleStore
    • As the overall performance and functionality were expanded, we are able to deliver our data much faster than before, which increases the demand for data.
    • Metadata is available in the platform by default, like metadata on the pipelines. Also, the information schema has lots of metadata, making it easy to load our assets to the data catalog.
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    Microsoft
    • 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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