DataNumen SQL Recovery Competitive Comparison

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DataNumen SQL Recovery 7.1 SQL Server
DBCC CHECKDB &
CHECKTABLE
Recovery for SQL Server 4.7 Kernel SQL Database Repair and Recovery Utility 13.5.1 Stellar Phoenix SQL Recovery 5.0 SQL Database Repair Tool 6.0 Recovery Toolbox for SQL Server 2.1.5 ApexSQL Recover 2014.01.1112 SysTools SQL Recovery 6 QuickData MDF Recovery 5.5 Quick Recovery for SQL Server Recoveryfix for SQL Database Recovery 12.03

Recovery Rate

Average Recovery Rate* 92.60% 1.27% 8.78% 8.88% 8.88% 8.88% 63.24% 8.81% 8.88% 8.88% 3.80% 10.72%
Case 1
(5MB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2005 Format)
88.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 86.20% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Case 2
(50MB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2005 Format)
100.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 99.98% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Case 3
(100MB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2008 Format)
100.00% 0.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 99.36% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Case 4
(500MB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2008 Format)
100.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 66.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Case 5
(1GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2008R2 Format)
100.00% 0.00% 0.18% 0.18% 0.18% 0.20% 53.28% 0.00% 0.20% 0.20% 0.00% 0.20%
Case 6
(2GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2008R2 Format)
100.00% 0.00% 49.60% 50.60% 50.60% 50.60% 53.26% 50.10% 50.60% 50.60% 0.00% 69.00%
Case 7
(4GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2012 Format)
100.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Case 8
(8GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2012 Format)
100.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 77.80% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Case 9
(10GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2014 Format)
100.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 78.50% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Case 10
(15GB corrupt MDF file in SQL Server 2012 Format)
100.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 80.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%

OS Support

32bit Windows
(Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11/
Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/
2019)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Windows Vista unsupported Windows XP/
Server 2003
unsupported
Yes Yes Yes Yes
64bit Windows
(Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11/
Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/
2019)
Yes Yes Windows 8 unsupported Yes Yes Yes Windows Server 2008/Vista unsupported Windows
Server 2003
unsupported
Yes Yes Yes Yes

SQL Server Support

32bit SQL Server
(2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
64bit SQL Server
(2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014)
Yes Yes SQL Server 2014 unsupported Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Input/Output File Format Support

Input MDF file created by 32bit SQL Server
(2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SQL
Server 2008R/2012/
2014
unsupported
Yes
Input MDF file created by 64bit SQL Server
(2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014)
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SQL
Server 2008R/2012/
2014 unsupported
Yes
Output file in MDF format and SQL plain text format Yes SQL plain
text unsupported
Yes Yes MDF unsupported Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes MDF unsupported Yes

Large MDF File Support

Recover MDF files as large as 16 TB Yes Yes No No No No Yes No No No No No

Capabilities in Recovering Objects

Recover the structure and data in the tables Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Support all data types XML type unsupported Yes XML type unsupported XML type unsupported XML type unsupported ntext, nvariant,
sql_variant, varbinary
and
XML type unsupported
Yes Yes ntext,nchar,
nvarchar,
varbinary,
sql_variant,
xml types
unsupported
ntext,nchar,
nvarchar,
varbinary,
sql_variant,
xml types
unsupported
ntext,nvarchar,
varchar,text,
smallmoney,
image,
xml types
unsupported
xml type unsupported
Support sparse column Yes Yes Yes
(only support SQL Server 2008 format)
No Yes No No No No No No Yes
Recover deleted records Yes No No No No Yes No No Yes Yes No No
Recover multiple files, including MDF file and its associated NDF files Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No

Other Features

Support to repair MDF files on corrupted media, such as floppy disks, Zip disks, CDROMs, etc. Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes
Support to repair a batch of MDF files. Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes No No No No
Support to find and select the MDF files to be repaired on the local computer, according to some search criteria. Yes No Yes No Yes No No No No No No No
Support integration with Windows Explorer, so you can repair an MDF file with the context menu of Windows Explorer easily. Yes No No No No No No No No No No No
Support drag & drop operation. Yes No No No No No No No No No No No
Support command line (DOS prompt) parameters. Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No
Support 95 languages, including:
English,Bulgarian,Czech,Danish,German,Greek,Spanish,Estonian,Finnish,
French,Hungarian,Indonesian,Italian,Japanese,Korean,ithuanian,Latvian,
Norwegian,Dutch,Polish,Portuguese,Romanian,Russian,Slovak,Slovenian,
Swedish,Turkish,Ukrainian,Chinese(Simplified),Afrikaans,Albanian,
Amharic,Arabic,Armenian,Assamese,Azerbaijani,Basque,Belarusian,
Bengali,Bosnian,Catalan,Chinese(Traditional),Corsican,Croatian,Divehi,
Filipino,Frisian,Galician,Georgian,Gujarati,Hausa,Hebrew,Hindi,Icelandic,
Igbo,Irish,Kannada,Kazakh,Khmer,Kinyarwanda,Kyrgyz,Lao,
Luxembourgish,Macedonian,Malay,Malayalam,Maltese,Maori,Marathi,
Mongolian,Nepali,Oriya,Pashto,Persian,Punjabi,Sanskrit,Scottish Gaelic,
Sesotho,Serbian,Sinhala,Kiswahili,Tajik,Tamil,Tatar,Telugu,Thai,Turkmen,
Urdu,Uyghur,Uzbek,Vietnamese,Welsh,isiXhosa,Yoruba,isiZulu
Yes No No No No No No No No No No No