SQL Server 2014 and Big Data approach from Microsoft

Microsoft has announced SQL Server 2014 during TechEd at the beginning of this month. And before the end of month comes, Microsoft has released the first public preview of SQL Server 2014, Community Preview 1 aka CTP1.

And what will be the most attractive enhancements for data professionals is in-memory OLTP enhancements in SQL Server 2014 database engine. This performance boost is delivered as an output of the project Hekaton which is developed with Microsoft Research

Why in-memory OLTP can be considered as most important feature of SQL Server 2014? Because in-memory OLTP objects will provide 10 to 60 times performance improvements without any code or application change.

Besides in-memory OLTP feature, SQL Server 2014 introduces Clustered ColumnStore which is one step ahead of ColumnStore index which was first introduced to SQL Server developers and Data Warehouse developers with SQL Server 2012.

SQL Server 2014 will enable database administrators to integrate solid-state storage (SSD) into SQL Server easily without interrupting database execution to increase performance and minimizing Disk IO

All these performance increase with Hadoop Connectivity will make SQL Server 2014 database engine a data platform for enterprises to deal with Big Data.

Go and download your free evaluation copy of SQL Server 2014 to see what is new in SQL Server 2014 for you.