Microsoft SQL Server is Microsoft's classic relational database management system (RDBMS) and one of the best-selling databases on the market.

The database runs in server mode, but can only be installed on Windows servers, providing data and structure access and manipulation services, which can be used from client applications or tools such as SQL Server Management Studio, SQLCmd, or third-party tools that can use connectors such as ODBC, ADO.NET or OLE-DB to execute TSQL commands on SQL Server...

SAP HANA is a high-performance in-memory database that accelerates real-time data-driven decisions and actions and supports all workloads, with the broadest advanced analytics on multi-model data, on-premise and in the cloud.

SAP HANA On Premise

The SAP HANA on premise installation supports transactional and analytical processing for volumes:

Snowflake is a fully managed cloud service, easy to use, but with a huge capacity for concurrent workloads.

Snowflake provides capabilities for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development and securely shared data exchange and consumption.

 

IBM Watson Analytics is a data visualisation and predictive analytics service that uses artificial intelligence techniques to enable rapid, autonomous discovery of patterns and meaning in data.

With guided data discovery, automated predictive analytics and cognitive capabilities such as natural language dialogue, Watson Analytics allows you to 'converse' with data and get understandable answers...

H2O.ai is a machine learning software used to build and deploy predictive analytics models. H2O.ai provides an easy-to-use interface that allows users to build and train machine learning models without writing code. This can be done using built-in algorithms or by importing custom algorithms from R and Python...

KNIME Analytics Platform is a software application that enables the creation and analysis of data-driven workflows, or pipelines, within the KNIME platform. The software was originally developed by researchers at the University of Konstanz in Germany, but is now available under an open source licence. 

The software offers a number of platform-specific features:

IBM Watson Studio is a cognitive development tool that allows you to incorporate existing data assets into the Watson platform, create custom models using machine learning, create new services using cognitive APIs and support natural language interfaces in applications, as well as analyse, visualise and interpret data. 

Watson Studio is offered as part of the IBM Cloud Pak for Data tools.

The product is designed to reduce the complexity of building and managing conversational AI applications, enabling you to build and scale AI solutions for the enterprise.

Databricks is a cloud-based software platform for data engineering, data science and machine learning. It provides a scalable environment for running high-performance data applications, and support for large datasets and high volumes of data processing...

RapidMiner is a powerful tool for advanced analytics, data mining and predictive analytics. It provides a graphical interface that enables data scientists, data analysts and business users to build predictive models, perform descriptive statistics, create visualisations, test and rapidly deploy machine learning models for any type of data...

Power BI is Microsoft's solution for data analysis, which falls into the category of self-service Business Intelligence. It is suitable for the business user who wants to perform their own analyses, independently of the IT department, and share them with other members of the organisation...