Industry leading performance and security with SQL Server 2019
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SQL Server 2019: Your modern data platform
Get to know the features and benefits now available in SQL Server 2019.
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| Features | SQL Server 2019 | SQL Server 2017 | SQL Server 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence across all your data | |||
| Data virtualization using PolyBase[1] |  | | |
| Database performance | | | |
| In-memory database: in-memory OLTP | | | |
| In-Memory Database: Persistent Memory[2] | | | |
| In-memory database: memory-optimized tempdb | |  | |
| Real-time operational analytics | | | |
| Intelligent query processing | | | |
| Intelligent performance | | | |
| Availability | |||
| Always on | | | |
| Accelerated database recovery | | | |
| Read scale-out availability groups | | | |
| Security | |||
| Always encrypted | | | |
| Always encrypted with secure enclaves | | | |
| Data discovery and classification | | | |
| Transparent data encryption | | | |
| Backup encryption support | | | |
| Encryption at rest and in motion | | | |
| Dynamic data masking and row-level security | | | |
| Cloud readiness | |||
| Backup to Azure | | | |
| Disaster recovery to Azure | | | |
| Optimized virtual machine (VM) images in Azure gallery | | | |
| Free asynchronous replication on Azure Virtual Machines for disaster recovery | | | |
| Management and programmability | |||
| Linux support | | | |
| Container support | | | |
| Kubernetes support | | | |
| Temporal tables | | | |
| JSON support | | | |
| Graph data support | | | |
| UTF 8 support | | | |
| Java support | | | |
| Azure Data Studio to manage SQL Server including support for T-SQL using notebooks | | | |
| Database compatibility certification | | | |
| BI and Analytics Support | |||
| Integration services managed as a server | | | |
| Tabular BI semantic model[3] | | | |
| Master data services[3] | | | |
| Data quality services[3] | | | |
| Many-to-many relationships in tabular models | | | |
| End-to-end mobile BI on any device | | | |
| SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) direct query | | | |
| Calculation groups in tabular model | | | |
Available SQL Server 2019 editions
Enterprise
Access mission-critical capabilities to achieve unparalleled scale, security, high availability, and leading performance for your Tier 1 database, business intelligence, and advanced analytics workloads.
Standard
Get rich programming capabilities, security innovations, and fast performance for mid-tier applications. Easily upgrade to the Enterprise edition without changing any code.
Express
Build small, data-driven web and mobile applications up to 10 GB in size with this entry-level database. Available for free.
Developer
Build, test, and demonstrate applications using all the features of the Enterprise edition in your non-production dev/test environments. Available for free.