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Dataverse vs. SQL Server / MySQL

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Do online resources exist for informing the selection of Dataverse vs. SQL Server (or MySQL) for creating new enterprise software applications?

 

There is a good link here for SharePoint Lists vs. Dataverse for Teams, and there is a good link for Dataverse for Teams vs. Dataverse; however, what is Dataverse better for vs. an RDBMS and vice versa ?

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    ChrisPiasecki Profile Picture
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    Re: Dataverse vs. SQL Server / MySQL

    Hi @Chris1969,

     

    @EricRegnier wrote a short blog post that does a great job summarizing Dataverse and how it's much more than just a database. So without repeating everything that Eric talks about, I'll just summarize a few key points :

    • You don't need a full time developer to create apps when using Dataverse.
    • Faster development time, less technical skills needed to develop/support your app = Lower TCO (total cost of ownership)
    • SQL Server provides highest degree of control and can support very complex N:N relationships and very denormalized data, but it comes at a high cost. Dataverse can't do this very easily, but I'd argue most data models don't require this degree of complexity.
    • SQL is just a relational database. Dataverse is much much more. 

     

    Have a review of the blog post below. 

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/News-Announcements/Dataverse-is-not-a-database/ba-p/756215

     

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    Re: Dataverse vs. SQL Server / MySQL

    Thank you very much, greatly appreciated

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