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SQL Server vs Tibero comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

SQL Server
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
275
Ranking in other categories
Database Management Systems (DBMS) (2nd)
Tibero
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
31st
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.7
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of SQL Server is 10.4%, down from 16.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tibero is 1.6%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SQL Server10.4%
Tibero1.6%
Other88.0%
Relational Databases Tools
 

Featured Reviews

Peter Larsson - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Warehouse Lead at Resurs Bank AB (publ.)
Ledger and seamless integrations have strengthened trusted analytics and unified workloads
SQL Server's high availability and disaster recovery features work for supporting mission-critical applications, but there is much more to wish for. These features are not quite ready yet, although they do function. However, they could be significantly better. High availability and disaster recovery features should be improved in the next releases. I have noticed that everything could be improved or enhanced in the future, particularly temporal tables and window functions. Sometimes, I believe Microsoft releases features to stay ahead of competitors, but they do not make them feature-rich or feature-complete. They release something to be ahead of leaders and then seem to forget to maintain and upgrade them. I want Microsoft to pay more attention and be more mindful about the things they implement. It is fine to do a first release that works, but you cannot simply abandon it in the following years without service packs and improvements. You must continue to build on features rather than forgetting about them.
CL
Consultant at TechData BIMA JSC
A stable and cost-effective tool that is fully compatible with Oracle
We are a solution provider and Tibero is one of the database products that we implement for our customers. All applications for Oracle work with Tibero and don't need to be customized The most valuable feature is compatibility with the Oracle database. If you have knowledge of Oracle then you…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The installation was straightforward. We did not have a large installation and it took a couple of weeks to complete."
"Everything is valuable. It is a relational database system which is critical for storing reporting data or any data that is highly relate-able."
"The solution is stable. It's reliable."
"The most valuable feature would most likely be querying. We query a lot, we use a lot of stored procedures. As for other features, such as replication and all other more fancy features we don't use them the most. I do not know, but perhaps the DBAs would be the best people who know of the features that they use, but as far as how I use it, it's just for querying and running stored procedures. We use the bare minimum features."
"The pricing of the solution is okay. It's less expensive than Oracle, for example."
"Without any doubt the Integration Services and Analysis Services are the most widely used. These are the basis for data quality, data gathering, ETL process, as well as collation for the data warehouse, Cube-generation, and ad-hoc processes. The ease in which you may mold a process flow or even modularly add in new structures is something which is much needed in my job."
"In my experience, it's been reliable and easy to use."
"The best feature in SQL Server is the CDC mechanism for adding data incrementally."
"Migration from Oracle to Tibero is very easy and it took us about ten minutes."
"Tibero has the mission to deliver reliable performance with a lower ownership cost."
"The most valuable feature is compatibility with the Oracle database."
"Tibero is a relational database management system, which supports disaster recovery, active cluster, active storage, etc."
"A huge benefit of Tibero is its licensing costs are low."
"Tibero is very easy to setup and maintain."
"It is incredibly fast, much faster than Oracle in terms of compiling and processing speeds, very reliable and secure, never crashes or gets overloaded, the true data never gets falsified or corrupted, it is very easy to port your projects over, and it is considerably cheaper than any other software on the market."
"Tibero uses Hyper-Threading architecture, which is incredibly fast."
 

Cons

"There was a time when Microsoft support provided very crisp answers, but over time, they have diluted their support to third parties, leading to a drop in support quality, which restricts me from giving a perfect 10, as post-sales service is crucial."
"It could be more stable."
"The free version is cumbersome to use and maintain. But $5000 for a licence is more expense than the benefit I would get from a licensed version."
"I would say that people should know how to get a SQL setup in place since it might be an area where they lack when it comes to the solution."
"The solution needs to be more secure. It's lacking, compared to, for example, Oracle."
"I would like to have a more directed modeling, to have the flexibility to design all databases using a graphic interface."
"The interface of the tool has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"As a software developer, it can be hard to do something in Oracle that is SQL Server specific, and vice-versa, sometimes."
"In PL/SQL code, there is a scope of improvement. We expect more PL/SQL packages should be included in the next release."
"The knowledge base is quite small and should be expanded."
"Manual installation is a bit tricky, but one can get used to it."
"There could be more user friendly FAQs online and included in the software."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"SQL Server is an expensive solution."
"There is a license required to use the solution and I am satisfied."
"You need to pay for the license. It most probably has per-core licensing."
"The free version is cumbersome to use and maintain. But $5000 for a licence is more expense than the benefit I would get from a licensed version. A licence might be worth the price to simplify management and speed up searches."
"SQL Server's pricing has proven satisfactory for our market range."
"Their options for concurrency and locking are good, as well as their prices."
"The SQL server is affordable. I rate the pricing a five out of ten."
"​It has the easiest licensing."
"The price of Tibero is cheaper than that of Oracle."
"The overall costs are very low compared to Oracle."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
37%
Construction Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Government
16%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business119
Midsize Enterprise60
Large Enterprise119
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Questions from the Community

Would you say the price of SQL Server is high compared to that of similar products?
SQL Server is fairly priced because it has various editions, depending on the number of users, servers, or core packs you are using. If you compare the product to others in this category, the price...
Has using SQL Server helped your organization in any way?
SQL Server has helped my organization through partitioning to distribute the workload, as it splits them up into smaller pieces so the machines can easily deal with it. However, this comes with a h...
Which authentication mode is best for SQL Server?
My company connects through SQL Server authentication. We have company Windows accounts, but we do not want to connect the two, out of security concerns and to keep things separated for our own pur...
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Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Microsoft SQL Server, MSSQL, MS SQL
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Microsoft SQL Server is used by businesses in every industry, including Great Western Bank, Aviva, the Volvo Car Corporation, BMW, Samsung, Principality Building Society, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario.
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