We performed a comparison between SAP SQL Anywhere and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of SAP SQL Anywhere are the ease of use and the user interface is intuitive."
"SAP SQL Anywhere is very helpful."
"We've found the solution very reliable overall. It's very fast."
"The auto-backup replication is a perfect feature. That is the feature I liked the most."
"It works well in general."
"For me, the initial setup is very easy as I have years of experience with the product."
"The Always On tool improves the SQL server availability."
"SQL Server is similar to other Microsoft products, such as BI, they are easy to use. You do not need to have an expensive BD to maintain them. All the useful intuitive features you find in Microsoft solutions you will find in SQL Server."
"The initial setup is easy, flawless."
"I have found the whole solution with all its features wonderful."
"The most valuable feature of SQL Server is the performance."
"I love the developer version. Microsoft tells you about all the cool things they provided for everybody. You can develop and do anything with it. It's really good to learn. Oracle will not give you that much freedom, and Microsoft really kills it. You don't do anything with it but develop, learn, break, and push it to its limits. If there are problems, you show Microsoft or ask them, "what's going on here?" There is good community support for the developer edition, and that's what I really appreciate. You can teach people about it without limitations. You can have small databases created. You can keep it for a year and then work on it. It's a good thing for learners and developers."
"SQL Server Profiler makes finding and debugging easy."
"SAP SQL Anywhere needs to incorporate functionalities like SAP S/4HANA."
"A problem we are experiencing now is when doing a backup in SQL 2012 and 14."
"The interface is not easy in comparison to the SQL Server. It could be more user-friendly."
"We have had some stability issues with SAP SQL Anywhere, but I am not sure if it is an application or network issue. We sometimes have a large amount of data being queried and it cannot handle it."
"It is not as secure as it could be."
"Performance could be better. But I don't know if it's a problem with my application or with my database."
"The stability of the solution should be improved in the next release. Sometimes it is great, sometimes it is troublesome. I would also like data conversion and the code pages to be a bit more straightforward."
"Microsoft doesn't have active-active load balancing scenarios. It's always a failover cluster."
"The performance is not always the best."
"Performance could be improved. There could be more support to PHP-based websites and to providing direct plugins for connections, and the related services or application services could be improved."
"The scalability is adequate but could improve."
"It would be nice if there was a feature to search for a specific value across multiple tables. This would save a lot of time for its users."
"The performance needs some improvement and it needs more features integrated into it."
SAP SQL Anywhere is ranked 20th in Relational Databases Tools with 6 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. SAP SQL Anywhere is rated 7.6, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP SQL Anywhere writes "Reliable and able to expand but needs to be more secure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". SAP SQL Anywhere is most compared with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, MySQL, Oracle Database, MariaDB and SAP HANA, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Cognos. See our SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL Server report.
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