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SQL Server 2016 is the biggest leap forward in the Microsoft data platform history with real-time operational analytics, rich
visualizations on mobile devices, built-in advanced analytics, new advanced security technology, and new hybrid cloud scenarios.
Enterprise
Developer
Business
intelligence
Advanced
analytics
Hybrid cloud
Enhanced in-memory
ColumnStore
End-to-end mobile BI on
all major platforms
In database advanced
analytics
Stretch Database
Enhanced separation of
duties
PolyBase in scale-out
configuration
(head and compute
nodes)
Transparent data
encryption
Distributed query
processing
Policy-based management
Disk-based OLTP
Row-level security
PolyBase
(compute node only)
Separation of duties
Enterprise
Express
Data
warehousing
Operational analytics
Standard
Query Store
Temporal
Query Store
Always Encrypted
Row-level security
Dynamic data masking
Basic auditing
Connectivity to R Open
Stretch Database
Connectivity to R Open
Backup to Azure
Policy-based management
Policy-based management
In-memory analytics
Enhanced backup
to Azure
Modernized reports
Enhanced multidimensional models
Temporal
1 GB memory,
max 10 GB memory
Express
Standard
Basic OLTP
Query Store
Modernized reports
Stretch Database
Backup to Azure
Temporal
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Express
Standard
Enterprise
Unlimited
4 cores
24 cores
Unlimited
OS Max
1 GB
128 GB
OS Max
Maximum size
524 PB
10 GB
524 PB
524 PB
New
New
New
Security
Data
warehousing
Basic security (Row-level security, data masking, basic auditing, separation of duties)
New
New
Advanced data integration (Fuzzy grouping and look ups, change data capture)
New
Programmability & developer t ools (T-SQL, CLR, Data Types, FileTable, JSON)
New
Basic Corporate Business Intelligence (Multi-dimensional models, Basic tabular model) New
Mobile BI (Datazen)
New
New
Advanced
analytics
New
New
Hybrid cloud
Stretch Database
New
Business
intelligence
SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition offers the full feature set of SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition, but Developer Edition is for development and test only, and not for production environments or use with production data.
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