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App innovation made simple

Rapidly build high-quality, predictive, and data-driven apps for any web and mobile platform with Microsoft data and developer solutions.

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Code with choice and flexibility

Use your existing skills to create a data and analytics infrastructure that’s tailored to your applications and services. This open and flexible platform lets you choose the languages, technologies, and platforms that work best for you—including Python, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, Java, macOS, and Linux—without tradeoffs or compromises.

Build for any and all data

Capitalize on big data opportunities—from breakthrough insights to predictive analytics—by building apps and services that can ingest and crunch large volumes of data. Use the languages and technologies you love combined with open source projects like Hadoop, Spark, R, Giraph, and Solr.

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Breathe easy with built-in security and efficiency

Build mission-critical apps with breakthrough scalability, in-memory performance, and high availability while meeting the most stringent security, compliance, and performance requirements.

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Transform apps with predictive analytics

Expand current applications or build new experiences. Create more engaging, differentiated applications that predict and act using machine learning and SQL Server R Services—built into SQL Server and Azure data services, and backed by Python and R support for Visual Studio.

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Create first-class native mobile apps.

Craft intelligent, context-aware native experiences for customers with Visual Studio and Xamarin. Store data in the cloud with Azure Data services, such as Azure SQL Database, Hadoop, or Azure DocumentDB.

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Download SQL Server 2016 Developer edition for free

Get the full capabilities of SQL Server 2016 Enterprise software for your data-driven applications—including SQL Server R Services, data security, and in-memory and BI techonologies. With a comprehensive set of SQL Server connectors, it’s easier than ever to work with SQL Server from virtually any environment, in any language.

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