
This helps handle heavy workload with ease. Compact (SQL CE) The compact edition is an embedded database engine. This restriction is there because an older version cannot know about file format changes that were introduced in the newer release. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is the cloud-based version of Microsoft SQL Server in a MPP (massively parallel processing) architecture for analytics workloads, presented as a platform as a service offering on Microsoft Azure.

You can store big data in HDFS supported by the SQL server. But the most striking feature of this version is Big Data Clusters, which lets you analyze your data on-fly using T-SQL and spark.


What are the latest/key features in SQL Server 2019 ?
