Free SQL Server Compliance Benchmark Tool vs Onam Database Security

Free SQL Server Compliance Benchmark Tool assesses SQL Server security and configuration against established best practices. It covers on-premises SQL Server installations and Azure SQL Managed Instances, with more than 80 checks across platform configuration, surface area reduction, authentication, encryption, and auditing. The tool can generate a SQL Server Security Compliance Benchmark output in PDF format. It uses core capabilities of the XIA Configuration compliance benchmarking platform and offers a trial of SQL Server documentation functionality found in XIA Configuration Express. The tool is free; requesting it requires a full name and business email address. CENTREL, the company behind the tool, is headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom, and was founded in 2008. CENTREL says its technical support staff are based in the UK and that remote support requires the customer's explicit consent, using tools such as TeamViewer and Microsoft Teams. The stated deployment is hybrid, and cloud databases and compliance templates are listed as supported.

Onam Database Security evaluates managed and self-hosted databases against cloud posture rules and CIS engine-level benchmarks. It discovers resources across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, IBM Cloud, Alibaba, and Kubernetes through read-only APIs. Listed database services include RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, Cloud SQL, DynamoDB, Redshift, and OCI DB Systems. Checks cover encryption, public accessibility, backup retention, deletion protection, audit configuration, snapshot exposure, and privileged database grants. Findings combine data-classification and identity context to identify sensitive databases and show which principals can access them. Cloud posture checks use cloud control-plane APIs; optional engine-level evaluation uses a read-only database account provisioned by the customer. Onam maps findings to 78 frameworks and offers PDF and CSV auditor exports with linked evidence. Free and Pro are SaaS plans; Enterprise also offers on-premises deployment. Free is limited to one cloud account and up to 500 resources. Pro is $22 a month, billed per resource per month, with a platform fee plus $22 per resource. A 14-day trial is listed.