Difference between Crystal Reports and SSRS Reports

Crystal Reports :

• It is a Product from SAP.
• If you want to deploy the Crystal Report you need to have Reporting Application Server.
• To display the Crystal Reports on a page, we need Crystal Report Source and Crystal Report Viewer Control
• With Crystal Reports getting data out of Dataset and report is required a small amount of work. That is we need to pass the Dataset to the Set Data Source of the Report Document available from the Crystal Report Source Control. That is required single line of code.

           me.CrystalReportSource1.Reportdocument.SetDataSource(dsEmp)

• Crystal Reports will be processed by IIS.
• In Crystal Report caching is available through cache server.

 

SSRS:

• It is a product from Microsoft.
• If you want to deploy the SSRS Reports we can deploy through Visual Studio and as well as through Report Server.
• To display the SSRS Report on a page, we can use Report Viewer Control.
• we can provide a data to SSRS Report we can create a Dataset and we can assign that dataset to SSRS Report. No additional code is required here.
• SSRS Report will be processes by the Report Server.
• In SSRS Reports, caching will be available through Report History Snapshot.