ApexSQL vs. Redgate SQL Backup Pro vs. SQL Backup Master vs. ThinkSQL Comparison Chart

Compress, verify, and encrypt SQL Server backups. Step-by-step wizards and a centralized GUI take the legwork out of creating, restoring, and verifying your backups. Automate backups, backup verification, restores, and log shipping. Protect against backups failing due to network outages. Save storage space, speed up network file transfer, and get up to 95% backup compression, higher than native SQL Server. Secure your backups with 256-bit AES encryption. Let backups verify themselves. Schedule regular restores that also run the gold-standard database integrity check, DBCC CHECKDB. It takes fast, small, secure SQL Server database backups, based on whatever schedule you set. With automated backup verification, you'll gain peace of mind, and save time, hassle, and money. Network resilience for fault-tolerant backup transfer, including automatic resuming of interrupted transfers. Multiple compression levels available.

ThinkSQL is a powerful, cross-platform relational database management system designed for modern operating systems and hardware. It aims to comply fully with the ISO SQL standard to provide an open and flexible SQL server for your applications. Compliance with the SQL standard means it supports transactions, sub-selects, views, set operators (union, except, intersect), access privileges and comprehensive referential constraints to ensure the integrity of your data. ThinkSQL uses a multi-versioning engine to provide consistent views of data and concurrent access to rows without locking. The server also has stored procedures and functions (using the standard syntax), and has support for large multimedia objects. It's easy to install, runs on Windows ® and Linux ®, and has native ODBC, JDBC™, dbExpress™ and Python drivers so your applications can connect directly from any platform.