SQL Server edition | Definition |
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Enterprise | The premium offering, SQL Server Enterprise edition delivers comprehensive high-end datacenter capabilities with blazing-fast performance, unlimited virtualization, and end-to-end business intelligence - enabling high service levels for mission-critical workloads and end-user access to data insights. |
Standard | SQL Server Standard edition delivers basic data management and business intelligence database for departments and small organizations to run their applications and supports common development tools for on-premise and cloud - enabling effective database management with minimal IT resources. |
Web | SQL Server Web edition is a low total-cost-of-ownership option for Web hosters and Web VAPs to provide scalability, affordability, and manageability capabilities for small to large-scale Web properties. |
Developer | SQL Server Developer edition lets developers build any kind of application on top of SQL Server. It includes all the functionality of Enterprise edition, but is licensed for use as a development and test system, not as a production server. SQL Server Developer is an ideal choice for people who build SQL Server and test applications. |
Express editions | Express edition is the entry-level, free database and is ideal for learning and building desktop and small server, which provides an integrated environment for database developers to carry out all their database design work for any SQL Server platform (both on and off premise) within Visual Studio. Database developers can use the enhanced Server Explorer in Visual Studio to easily create or edit database objects and data, or execute queries. |
Connectivity Components | Installs components for communication between clients and servers, and network libraries for DB-Library, ODBC, and OLE DB. |
Documentation | Description |
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SQL Server Books Online | Core documentation for SQL Server. |
Feature | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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Maximum compute capacity used by a single instance - SQL Server Database Engine1 | Operating system maximum | Limited to lesser of 4 sockets or 24 cores | Limited to lesser of 4 sockets or 16 cores | Limited to lesser of 1 socket or 4 cores | Limited to lesser of 1 socket or 4 cores |
Maximum compute capacity used by a single instance - Analysis Services or Reporting Services | Operating system maximum | Limited to lesser of 4 sockets or 24 cores | Limited to lesser of 4 sockets or 16 cores | Limited to lesser of 1 socket or 4 cores | Limited to lesser of 1 socket or 4 cores |
Maximum memory for buffer pool per instance of SQL Server Database Engine | Operating System Maximum | 128 GB | 64 GB | 1410 MB | 1410 MB |
Maximum memory for Columnstore segment cache per instance of SQL Server Database Engine | Unlimited memory | 32 GB2 | 16 GB2 | 352 MB2 | 352 MB2 |
Maximum memory-optimized data size per database in SQL Server Database Engine | Unlimited memory | 32 GB2 | 16 GB2 | 352 MB2 | 352 MB2 |
Maximum memory utilized per instance of Analysis Services | Operating System Maximum | Tabular: 16 GB MOLAP: 64 GB | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Maximum memory utilized per instance of Reporting Services | Operating System Maximum | 64 GB | 64 GB | 4 GB | N/A |
Maximum relational database size | 524 PB | 524 PB | 524 PB | 10 GB | 10 GB |
Feature | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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Server core support 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Log shipping | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Database mirroring | Yes | Yes Full safety only | Witness only | Witness only | Witness only |
Backup compression | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Database snapshot | Yes | Yes 3 | Yes 3 | Yes 3 | Yes 3 |
Always On failover cluster instances | Yes 16 | Yes Support for 2 nodes | No | No | No |
Always On availability groups | Yes Up to 8 secondary replicas, including 2 synchronous secondary replicas | No | No | No | No |
Basic availability groups 2 | No | Yes Support for 2 nodes | No | No | No |
Online page and file restore | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Online indexing | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Online schema change | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Fast recovery | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Mirrored backups | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Hot add memory and CPU | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Database recovery advisor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Encrypted backup | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Hybrid backup to Azure (backup to URL) | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Feature | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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Columnstore 1 | Yes | Yes 2 | Yes 2 | Yes2 | Yes2 |
In-Memory OLTP 1 | Yes | Yes 2 | Yes 2 | Yes 2, 3 | Yes 2 |
Stretch Database | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Persistent Main Memory | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Multi-instance support | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
Table and index partitioning | Yes | Yes 2 | Yes 2 | Yes 2 | Yes 2 |
Data compression | Yes | Yes 2 | Yes 2 | Yes 2 | Yes 2 |
Resource Governor | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Partitioned Table Parallelism | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Multiple Filestream containers | Yes | Yes 2 | Yes 2 | Yes 2 | Yes 2 |
NUMA Aware Large Page Memory and Buffer Array Allocation | Yes | No 4 | No | No | No |
Buffer Pool Extension | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
I/O Resource Governance | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Read-Ahead | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Advanced Scanning | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Delayed Durability | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Feature | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express | Express with Advanced Services |
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Row-level security | Yes | Yes | Yes 1 | Yes 1 | Yes 1 |
Always Encrypted | Yes | Yes 1 | Yes 1 | Yes 1 | Yes 1 |
Dynamic data masking | Yes | Yes | Yes 1 | Yes 1 | Yes 1 |
Basic auditing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Fine grained auditing | Yes | Yes 1 | Yes 1 | Yes 1 | Yes 1 |
Transparent database encryption | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Extensible key management | Yes | No | No | No | No |
User-defined roles | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Contained databases | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Encryption for backups | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Feature | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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Heterogeneous subscribers | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Merge replication | Yes | Yes | Yes (Subscriber only) | Yes (Subscriber only) | Yes (Subscriber only) |
Oracle publishing | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Peer to peer transactional replication | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Snapshot replication | Yes | Yes | Yes (Subscriber only) | Yes (Subscriber only) | Yes (Subscriber only) |
SQL Server change tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Transactional replication | Yes | Yes | Yes (Subscriber only) | Yes (Subscriber only) | Yes (Subscriber only) |
Transactional replication to Azure | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Transactional replication updateable subscription | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Feature | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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SQL Management Objects (SMO) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SQL Configuration Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SQL CMD (Command Prompt tool) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Distributed Replay - Admin Tool | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Distribute Replay - Client | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Distributed Replay - Controller | Yes (Up to 16 clients) | Yes (1 client) | Yes (1 client) | No | No |
SQL Profiler | Yes | Yes | No 1 | No 1 | No 1 |
SQL Server Agent | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Pack | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) | Yes | Yes 2 | Yes 2 | No | No |
Feature | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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User instances | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
LocalDB | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Dedicated admin connection | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes with trace flag | Yes with trace flag |
PowerShell scripting support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SysPrep support 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Support for data-tier application component operations - extract, deploy, upgrade, delete | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Policy automation (check on schedule and change) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Performance data collector | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Able to enroll as a managed instance in multi-instance management | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Standard performance reports | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Plan guides and plan freezing for plan guides | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Direct query of indexed views (using NOEXPAND hint) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Automatic indexed views maintenance | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Distributed partitioned views | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Parallel indexed operations | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Automatic use of indexed view by query optimizer | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Parallel consistency check | Yes | No | No | No | No |
SQL Server Utility Control Point | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Buffer pool extension | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Feature | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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Microsoft Visual Studio integration | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Intellisense (Transact-SQL and MDX) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
MDX edit, debug, and design tools | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Feature | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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Basic R integration | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Advanced R integration | Yes | No | No | No | No |
R Server (Standalone) | Yes | No | No | No | No |
PolyBase compute node | Yes | Yes 1 | Yes 1, 2 | Yes 1, 2 | Yes 1, 2 |
PolyBase head node | Yes | No | No | No | No |
JSON | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Query Store | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Temporal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Common Language Runtime (CLR) Integration | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Native XML support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
XML indexing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MERGE & UPSERT capabilities | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FILESTREAM support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FileTable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Date and Time datatypes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Internationalization support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Full-text and semantic search | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Specification of language in query | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Service Broker (messaging) | Yes | Yes | No (Client only) | No (Client only) | No (Client only) |
Transact-SQL endpoints | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Feature | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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Create cubes without a database | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Autogenerate staging and data warehouse schema | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Change data capture | Yes | Yes 1 | No | No | No |
Star join query optimizations | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Scalable read-only Analysis Services configuration | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Parallel query processing on partitioned tables and indexes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Global batch aggregation | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Feature Name | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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Spatial indexes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Planar and geodetic datatypes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Advanced spatial libraries | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Import/export of industry-standard spatial data formats | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Feature Name | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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SQL Server Migration Assistant | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Database mail | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Feature Name | Enterprise | Standard | Web | Express with Advanced Services | Express |
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StreamInsight | StreamInsight Premium Edition | StreamInsight Standard Edition | StreamInsight Standard Edition | No | No |
StreamInsight HA | StreamInsight Premium Edition | No | No | No | No |