We performed a comparison between MySQL and SAP SQL Anywhere 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 solution is easy to use."
"I like MySQL because of its community."
"The product is flexible and easy to use."
"The easy access to the data and the ability to sort the data with multiple methods are very valuable features."
"My main reason for using MySQL for this small customer database company and for some kinds of scientific projects was that I had to do the installation myself. I didn't have a database administration team behind me. Therefore, I was looking for something very easy to handle. MySQL is easy to install, connect, and do all such things."
"Support for enterprise-grade features like clustering, master-slave replication, even Sharding (to some extent) which is an advanced feature."
"I would use MySQL for a medium project, with around 1,00,000 hundred thousand users, because of the indexing and stored procedures."
"Table partitioning is most valuable. It is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of SAP SQL Anywhere are the ease of use and the user interface is intuitive."
"The auto-backup replication is a perfect feature. That is the feature I liked the most."
"SAP SQL Anywhere is very helpful."
"We've found the solution very reliable overall. It's very fast."
"It works well in general."
"On the database side, it should be really lightweight, and the data structure should be like MongoDB."
"I am looking for the Temporal SQL feature, which basically means that there is complete history for each table. This feature is currently available in MariaDB. PostgreSQL has something called a foreign-data wrapper, which is another way to access external data from inside. MySQL could have a similar feature."
"The auto-tuning and NDB cluster has some limitations regarding foreign keys."
"The technical support should be more knowledgeable and available worldwide."
"This solution needs to be improved when it comes to working with desktop applications on the developer side."
"Even for the best database, we always want the database to perform much better, so we wish MySQL would be much better, in terms of performance."
"Oracle should start putting in some of the enterprise features in the standard feature. There are some key features that should be part of the standard."
"While utilizing a comparable algorithm, is noted to be sensitive, especially when configuring the inner device."
"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."
"It is not as secure as it could be."
"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."
MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 142 reviews while SAP SQL Anywhere is ranked 20th in Relational Databases Tools with 6 reviews. MySQL is rated 8.2, while SAP SQL Anywhere is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP SQL Anywhere writes "Reliable and able to expand but needs to be more secure". MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Teradata and SAP HANA, whereas SAP SQL Anywhere is most compared with SQL Server, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, Oracle Database, MariaDB and SAP HANA. See our MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere report.
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