SQL Server 2019 editions

Intelligence over all your data

SQL Server 2019 provides industry leading security, performance and
intelligence over all your data, structured and unstructured.

Feature highlights
• Unlimited cores of CPU
• Unlimited memory
• Industry-leading performance with
Feature highlights unmatched scalability
• Up to 24 cores of CPU • Unlimited virtualization benefits
• Up to 128 GBs of memory • Petabyte scale data warehousing
Feature highlights
• SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters • Business critical HA on Windows and
• Up to 16 cores of CPU Linux
• Data virtualization through PolyBase
• Up to 64 GBs of memory • Low TCO with free DR replicas
• Enhanced in-memory performance
• In-memory OLTP and Columnstore • Access to Power BI Report Server
• Automatic intelligent database tuning
• End-to-end encryption with secure
• Azure Data Studio with notebook + Standard features
enclaves
support
• Full T-SQL surface area + Express/web features

• Support for Linux and Windows + Express/web features

containers
• UTF-8 character encoding
• Data classification and auditing

Build once and deploy across any SQL Server edition without changing your app
What’s new in SQL Server 2019
SQL Server 2019 new features Express/web Standard Enterprise

Maximum number of cores 4/16 24 OS Max

Compute and
Maximum memory utilized per instance 1/64 GB 128 GB OS Max
storage
Maximum size 10 GB/524 PB 524 PB 524 PB

SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters with Apache Spark and HDFS built into SQL Server engine ✕ ✕
Intelligence
over all your
Data virtualization using PolyBase (including additional data sources like Oracle, Teradata, MongoDB, and other
SQL Server databases)
✕ ✕
data
Unified AI platform to train and operationalize models with SQL Server ML Services ✕ ✕ ✕
Compatibility certification ✕ ✕ ✕
Choice of
language and UTF-8 support ✕ ✕ ✕
platform
Support for SQL Server Java extension ✕ ✕ ✕
Free DR replicas in Azure and on-premises ✕ ✕
Intelligent Query processing : Scalar UDF inlining, table variable deferred compilation, approximate count distinct ✕ ✕

Industry- Intelligent Query processing features: row mode memory grant feedback , batch mode for row store and
automatic tuning
✕
leading
performance Automatic read-write connection re-routing ✕
and availability
In-Memory Database: memory-optimized tempdb ✕
In-Memory Database: Persistent Memory support ✕ ✕
Accelerated Database recovery ✕ ✕
Always Encrypted with secure enclaves ✕ ✕ ✕
Secure and Transparent database encryption ✕ ✕
reliable Data classification and auditing ✕ ✕ ✕
Vulnerability assessment ✕ ✕ ✕
Quick business Azure Data Studio to manage SQL Server including support for T-SQL using Notebooks ✕ ✕ ✕
insights SQL Server Analysis Services Direct Query ✕ ✕
SQL Server 2019 continues to deliver unparalleled value
Key investment themes

Intelligence over Choice of language Industry-leading Highly secure Quick business insights
all your data and platform performance and availability and reliable

• Big Data clusters with Apache Spark and

HDFS
• Data virtualization to integrate external
data sources
• Azure Machine Learning and Spark ML
• Support for Kubernetes deployment
• Free supported Java
• Native UTF-8 support
• Support for Linux including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux • Intelligent Query processing
Enterprise Server (SLES), and Ubuntu • In-Memory Database: Persistent Memory
• Support for Docker containers on Linux and support
Windows • Accelerated database recovery
• Python language support • Free DR to Azure
• Real-time operational analytics • Support for graph data • Always Encrypted with secure enclaves
• PolyBase • Automatic plan correction and adaptive • Data classification & auditing
query processing
• R language support • Vulnerability assessment
• Cross platform availability groups
• SQL Server Machine Learning Services • Notebook support for T-SQL, Python, R,
• Power BI reporting both on-premises and Scala in Azure Data Studio
• Dynamic data masking, Row level security
and in the cloud
and Always encrypted • SQL Server Analysis Services Direct Query
• Access to Power BI Report Server
• End to end mobile BI

© 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This material is provided for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied.