Microsoft’s Database Management Landscape 2020

• Microsoft offers on-premises and hosted database offerings that support a variety of data types.
• They include SQL Server and a range of popular open-source products with various degrees of integration.
• Azure offerings provide a central hosted destination for enterprises to a variety of database formats.
• All choices continue to receive investment, updates, and more integration with other Azure services.

Microsoft’s database management landscape includes products and services that use a combination of proprietary and popular open-source database technologies to store and manage a variety of data types. By understanding which technologies Microsoft offers and the data types each supports, organizations can choose offerings and design database architectures that ensure they are using the most efficient and effective choices.

Overview

Database management involves a combination of database hosting, writing and reading data to disks, indexing and querying, security, and potentially high-availability, disaster recovery, and scaling features. However, the first choice in selecting a database management product typically involves narrowing the list down to products that support a specific data type.