SQL Server 2016:

Everything built in
An Industry Leader

across all workloads

In-memory
2015 Magic Quadrant
for Operational
Database
Management
Systems*

Most secure
6 years in a row
Highest performing least vulnerable

data warehouse 80

70
69

60
49
50

#1 performance
43
40 34
29
30
22 22
20
20 18
15
SQL Server
10 6
4 5
3 3
0 1 0 0
SQL Server 0
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

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Highest performing: TPC-H non-clustered results as of 04/06/15, 5/04/15, 4/15/14 and 11/25/13, respectively.
http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results.asp?resulttype=noncluster
Most secure: National Institute of Standards and Technology Comprehensive Vulnerability Database update 10/2015