Microsoft has made it official:
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SQL Server 2016 will be generally available on June 1, 2016. This will allow you to build mission-critical, and business critical intelligent applications with the most secure database1, the highest performance data warehouse2, end-to-end mobile BI on any device, in-database advanced analytics, in-memory capabilities optimized for all workloads, and a consistent experience from on-premises to cloud. These capabilities are built-in to SQL Server for industry-leading low cost of ownership.
They also announced what will be in each edition.
Interesting Standard versus Enterprise bits for me:
- Polybase Compute nodes may be Standard edition but head nodes must be Enterprise
- Row-level security and data masking appear to be Standard edition features
- R support will be in all editions, but “full” parallelism requires Enterprise edition