Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive, enterprise-ready business intelligence platform that transforms data into meaningful insights. It offers several enhancements for the SQL Server database engine, SQL Server Machine Learning Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Master Data Services.

The SQL Server Big Data Clusters uses Kubernetes as the deployment platform and adds the power of Spark and Apache Hadoop File System (HDFS). It supports data virtualization and workloads with deployable apps running in the cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid configurations.

This enables SQL servers to improve data estate and apps with intelligence over all types of data, whether structured or unstructured.

It also supports machine learning and extensibility with .NET, Java, Python, and R. Developers can operationalize their machine learning models close to the data while leveraging Java and other languages server-side.