Available SQL Server 2017 editions
Enterprise
Access mission-critical capabilities to achieve unparalleled scale, security, high availability, and leading performance for your Tier 1 database, business intelligence, and advanced analytics workloads.
Standard
Find rich programming capabilities, security innovations, and fast performance for mid-tier applications and data marts. Easily upgrade to the Enterprise edition without having to change any code.
Express
Build small, data-driven web and mobile applications up to 10 GB in size with this entry-level database. Available for free.
Developer
Build, test, and demonstrate applications in a non-production environment with this full-featured edition of SQL Server 2017.
1In-memory OLTP and in-memory columnstore are limited to the amount of memory specified by edition in the Scale Limits section. Columnstore and Real-time Operational Analytics are also limited to two degrees of parallelism (two cores/query) in SQL Server Standard edition and one degree of parallelism (one core/query) in SQL Server Web and Express editions.
2Scaling out queries using PolyBase requires using SQL Server Enterprise edition as a head node.
3Certain features including SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, Machine Learning Services, PolyBase, and Stretch Database are not available in SQL Server 2017 on Linux.
4Interleaved Execution is available in all editions.
