According to Microsoft, SQL Server 2014 delivers a powerful and incredible set of capabilities for hybrid clouds, business intelligence, and mission-critical workloads. The technology giant also claims that this server boasts of the best in-memory technology in the entire market. One key differentiator is that the SQL Server 2014 brings with it in-memory technologies that are impressively built directly into a product. This way, users do not need any expensive extra software or even hardware to reap the countless benefits of the in-memory technology.
The SQL Server 2014 is incredibly fast. You can enjoy speeds of up to thirty times faster with in-memory OLTP (online transaction processing). What is more is that you can build big data solutions and mission-critical apps using analytics workloads, business intelligence, data warehousing, high-performance and in-memory technology across the online transaction processing.
SQL Server 2014 employs a set of amazing tools to manage databases in both the cloud and on-premises. The following are some incredible benefits of using SQL Server 2014.
Workload-optimized
SQL Server 2014 has in-memory technologies specifically tuned for all workload- business intelligence, analytics intelligence, data warehousing and transaction processing. For instance, you can achieve 35× transaction performance gains while others achieve more than 340 times performance gains for both reporting performance and query performance too. You can also enjoy 17 times for transactional performance.
In-Memory Innovation
The OLTP technology largely increases performance for the mission-critical apps while at the same time minimizing the extra costs by requiring hot database tables put in the memory rather than the whole database. Whenever the hot tables are memory-optimized, the tables automatically transform to a completely new data structure, which eliminates latching and locking. You can also recompile the stored procedures natively inside machine codes for extra performance benefits.
Updateable in-memory columnstore
The in-memory columnstore is updateable, enabling the reading and writing to data warehouse while also benefiting from the extremely fast speeds as well as high data compression rates. With the updateable in-memory columnstore, you will definitely enjoy 100 times performance gains. With the in-memory columnstore, users can now enjoy world record performances and prices. NASDAQ for instance uses the in-memory columnstore to save money and time. To be specific, the financial giant saves substantially on costs related to query performance and data management. This helps facilitate long-term goals.
No New Skills or Extra Hardware Needed
You enjoy the flexibility of putting subsets of data in-memory. You can also provide tools to assist in determining what data will benefit the most from in-memory running. So what does this mean? It simply means that you can optimize all the existing resources as well as also achieve huge performance gains on the existing hardware compared to having to refresh your hardware or the expensive add-ons. Moreover, you do not need to rewrite existing SQL server apps or learn any new skills to take every advantage of the in-memory technology.
The above are just some of the many reasons why you should use SQL Server 2014.