SharePoint 2016 Feature Comparison for IT Professional

In this article, let's list a feature comparison between SharePoint 2013 vs. SharePoint 2016 including the Standard and Enterprise Features. Please see below table for comparisons across SharePoint versions. This comparison is only for IT Professionals.

IT Professional Features	SharePoint Foundation 2013	SharePoint Server 2013 Standard CAL	SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise CAL	SharePoint Server 2016 Standard CAL	SharePoint Server 2016 Enterprise CAL
Active Directory Synchronization	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Alternate Access Mapping (AAM)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Analytics Platform	No	Yes2	Yes	Yes	Yes
Anti-malware protection	No	No	No	No	No
Claims-Based Authentication Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Configuration Wizards	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Deferred Site Collection upgrade	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Distributed Cache	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Data loss prevention	No	No	No	No	No
Encryption at rest	No	No	No	No	No
Host Header Site Collections	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Improved Permissions Management	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Improved Self-Service Site Creation	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Managed Accounts	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Minimal Download Strategy (MDS)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
OAuth	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Patch Management	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Quota Templates	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Read-Only Database Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Remote BLOB Storage	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Request Management	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Request throttling	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Resource throttling	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Service Application Platform	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SharePoint Health Analyzer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SharePoint admin center	No	No	No	No	No
Shredded Storage	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Site Collection Compliance Policies	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Site Collection Health Checks	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
State Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Streamlined Central Administration	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
System Status Notifications	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Unattached Content Database Recovery	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Upgrade evaluation site collections	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Usage Reporting and Logging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows PowerShell Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes