Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Data Discovery and Visualization

Document Management

Enhanced 911 (E911)

File Sharing

Risk Management

Statistical Analysis

Enterprise

Accounting

Invoicing

Subscription Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Agency

Recruitment Automation

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Cloud Storage

Data Lakehouse

Data Mapping

Firewall Security Management

Fraud Detection

IP Address Management (IPAM)

In-Memory Databases

Incident Response

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Log Management

Managed IT Service

Network Performance Monitoring

Password Management System

Release Management

SOA Application Gateways

Web Portal

WiFi Hotspot

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Appointment Scheduling

Audio Editing

Content Management

Customer Reference Management

Email Marketing

Email Testing

Marketing Automation

Product Sampling

Retail Media Advertising

Social Media Management

Social Media Marketing

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Field Service Management

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Lead Generation Services

Lead-to-Account Matching and Routing

Multichannel Retail

Sales Coaching

Sales Gamification

Social Commerce

Sales

Architecture

InsurTech

Laboratory Information Management

Legal Billing

OSS/BSS (Operations Support/Business Support)

Oil and Gas

Real Estate

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A relational database is a database structured to recognize relations among stored items of information.

Relational Databases

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SAP was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. The company employs over 105,000 people globally and develops software solutions for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and related business functions. SAP’s early products, SAP R/2 and SAP R/3, were widely adopted for managing core business processes. Its current ERP platform, SAP S/4HANA, uses in-memory computing to support data-intensive operations and integrates capabilities such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. SAP offers a portfolio of software applications that support various business functions across industries. These applications are designed to operate on a unified digital platform. As of 2025, SAP reports over 230 million cloud users and provides more than 100 solutions. The company’s offerings are used by organizations to manage finance, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and other operational areas.

Features for Relational Databases focus on data security, quality, and consistency.

ACID compliance

The database complies with ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability), ensuring transactions are processed reliably.

Database monitoring

Teams can monitor database usage and performance metrics.

Database locking

Locking mechanisms prevent users from accessing data while it is being updated.

Encryption

Data is encrypted in-motion and at rest, preventing unauthorized access and security breaches.

Disaster recovery

Data can be recovered in the event of a disaster.

Flexible deployment

The database can be deployed in a variety of environments and operating systems.

Multiple datatypes

The database can store a variety of different datatypes.

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Different versions

Enterprise version

Non technical users

Finding information

Ms sql

Transform data

Party vendors

Resources available

Manipulate data

Third party vendors

Easy to use

Run time

Large data sets

Friendly interface

Data centers

Ansi sql

User friendly interface

Ability to host

Scales well

Data synchronization

Home

We use SQL Anywhere with our GeoGraphix software for oil and gas exploration. It has been a workhorse RDMS for us for almost 25 years. It's fully ANSI SQL compliant, performs well, and handles relatively large data volumes (10,000,000 records per table). It also scales easily from a single consultant's desktop to an oil and gas major or NOC.

Good performance with relatively large data sets - its cost-based query optimizer is particularly robust
ANSI SQL compliant
Supports T-SQL
Scales well between the desktop (single user) and client/server installations supporting 50-1000 users

Small user base makes finding information difficult.
Third-party vendors don't support native connections to SQL Anywhere (TIBCO, ESRI). Although direct ODBC connections can be used successfully.

Powerful full-featured RDMS
Little or no database administration required
Scales well from the desktop to client/server installations with 50-100 users.

Satisfies our requirements
Limited online support
Price is fair

SAP SQL Anywhere is used across our organization. It is the database for our Point of Sale system. We have a rather small amount of data coming from 70 stores. SQL Anywhere helps us organize POS data, analyze and share. We find it fast and usually problem-free. It is also easy to get data through ODBC.

It is fast
User friendly interface
Affordable cost

User interface is a little bit outdated
May have some issues in connecting to different versions
When syntax check enabled, the editor could be slow

It is cost effective
It is fast
Its interface is user-friendly

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We use SAP SQL Anywhere as the database for our core line-of-business application. We have both stand-alone and multi-user (enterprise) installations of this application. It is the repository of all our major transactional data, and as such is also the source for our data warehouse, which is a separate platform and environment.

SQL compliant
ODBC drivers available
Simple implementation

Seems a lesser implementation of SQL than T-SQL / SQL Server
Desktop version (vs. enterprise version) seems underpowered, like Access vs MS SQL rather than a desktop edition of an enterprise database
Fewer experienced resources available with Sybase skills

Skilled/experienced resources are less prominent than Microsoft SQL Server or even Oracle, or MySQL, so finding solutions and assistance, if needed, takes more time than it would with other platforms
You will need to find a good SQL query tool by yourself because the Sybase Central / Interactive SQL utilities are lacking in many basic features, and just generally have a bad user interface

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We utilize this software to be able to host our own software as a database service so that our customers can use it.

The ability to host network database services and the ability to manage them.

Some features seem hard to use and do not have a clear reason what it is used for.

The software is considered essential for our own software to flourish in the current market.

Supervisor, Application Support

SQL is a global platform for any DB machine, and my ability to use SQL Anywhere across all DB platforms gives me the edge to get real time data, fast and deliverable, and easy to use when you understand your requirement as a function analyst to leverage such skills across all databases. I have used SQL Anywhere across MS, Oracle, Postgres and MySQL platforms, and I will say its a great skill to have and use.
I recently consulted for a company that already used MS DB and were thinking of switching its DB to SQL Anywhere. One of the challenges was the migration of stored procedures. These procedures will have to be evaluated and validated and probably re-written to suit current needs that they serve.

It queries large set of data and has a speedy run time.
With the rate at which data is going with Internet of All things, SQL Anywhere cuts across database applications outside of traditional data centers in which department data's are stored.
The amazing thing about SQL Anywhere is the relational standard it maintains as a structured language that works across any DB. Yes, you might need to adopt some changes within the environment DB you are working; however, its important to know SQL itself to help archive data goals.

I think it should be more user friendly for non-technical users.
More functional functionalities should be added to the object explore when working with a table to transform data/manipulate data.

SAP SQL Anywhere

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