Performance improvements of SQL Server 2014 over SQL Server 2008




Following is the list of performance and scalability differences between SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2008 (ref. Technet). The most important feature is called in-memory OLTP. You can download and read the white paper (.pdf) from here, which describes the internals of in-memory OLTP.

PERFORMANCE and SCALE
  • In-Memory OLTP
  • Enhanced In-Memory ColumnStore for DW
  • Support for 640 logical proc. & 4 TB memory
  • Support to 15,000 partitions
  • Resource Governor IO governance
  • Buffer Pool Extension to SSDs
  • Query optimization enhancements
  • SysPrep at cluster level
  • Predictable performance with tiering of compute, network, and storage with Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Data Compression with USC-2 Unicode support
  • Backup Compression

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