>Microsoft taught R to interact directly with SQL Server's storage engine They have created 2 new services for SQL Server 2016 - BxlServer and SQL Satellite wh

>Microsoft taught R to interact directly with SQL Server's storage engine They have created 2 new services for SQL Server 2016 - BxlServer and SQL Satellite which facilitate the communication and data exchange. They obviously have additional speedups for the proprietary runtime (that was one of the main selling points of the company they acquired - fast data access to several RDBMS), but it's plenty fast for regular R too. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt709082.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt709082.aspx