SharePoint Key Feature

 Now, it is important to understand the Sharepoint feature and their benefits for the team as a whole. The general areas of concern of some of the key features are described below:

• Sites -This is where you can collaborate on and create, store and retrieve data. Content management, tagging searching, documentation and information all take place here.
• Content -You can find, explore and manage content here. Web, pages, apps, workflow or content types help with this.
• Search -This allows you to search for content within SharePoint.
• Insights -This represents business intelligence features such as key performance indicators.
• Communities -This is the social feature that facilitates communication.
• Composites -This represents the capability to integrate external services, for example, by business connectivity services. 

Evolution of SharePoint over the years

Features	SharePoint 2016	SharePoint 2013	SharePoint 2010
Minrole Farm Topology	Yes	No	No
Zero Downtime Patching	Yes	No	No
Integrated project server	Yes	No	No
File size for uploads	10 GB	250 MB, can be increased to 2GB	250 MB, can be increased to 2GB
File name support for special characters	Yes	No	No
Content database size	1+ TB	200 GB	200 GB
Site collections per content database	1,00,000 per content DB	2000 recommended, 5000 maximum	2000 recommended, 5000 maximum
Fast site collection/ site creation	Yes	No	No
List threshold	>5000	5000	5000
App launcher	Yes	No	No
SharePoint search service application	500 million items	100 million per search service application, 10 million per index partition	100 million per search service application, 10 million per index partition
ODF support for document libraries	Yes	No	No
ReFS file system support	Yes	No	No
Durable links Search for sensitive content	Yes	No	No
SMTP connection encryption	Yes	No	No
Sites page pinning	Yes	No	No
Picture and video previews	Yes	No	No
Site folders	Yes	No	No
Mobile experience	Improved experience	channels	No
Power-pivot add in and power view	Yes	No	No
Sharing	Yes, improved sharing	Yes, basic sharing	Yes, basic sharing
Hybrid	Yes, improved and extremely advanced as compared to SharePoint 2013	Yes, basic	No