Deliver Highly Reliable And Available Database Performance

This Red Hat–Microsoft partnership brief highlights the strategic integration of Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to power modern, data-intensive applications. By combining SQL Server’s enterprise-grade database capabilities with the stability, performance, and security of RHEL, businesses gain a consistent, cross-platform foundation that supports hybrid, cloud, container, and on-prem environments. SQLPAL enables SQL Server to run natively on Linux without sacrificing performance or functionality. High availability is ensured via Pacemaker and Always On Availability Groups, while performance features like columnstore indexes, in-memory OLTP, and adaptive query processing accelerate workloads. RHEL’s NUMA support, Direct I/O, and THP optimize memory and I/O efficiency, making this stack ideal for mission-critical deployments.

Red Hat and Microsoft together deliver a high-performing, secure, and scalable data platform to support today’s enterprise applications.