We performed a comparison between CockroachDB 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 most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities."
"The best feature of CockroachDB is the ability to keep the nodes in different locations."
"CockroachDB is highly reliable."
"The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported."
"The tool's most valuable feature is node syncing, which takes only 0.54 milliseconds."
"The availability and the easy to use feature is the most valuable. The documentation is also good."
"I use CockroachDB to test big data samples and to create the best structure for databases. We have four users and required 10 people for deployment and maintenance."
"The initial setup and deployment are simple."
"It works well in general."
"We've found the solution very reliable overall. It's very fast."
"SAP SQL Anywhere is very helpful."
"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."
"The initial setup and pricing could be improved."
"The platform could be more extensible."
"The closer they can make CockroachDB to being completely compatible with Postgres, the better. It's almost compatible, but not completely. If it was, it would be nice to just be able to use Postgres libraries without any fiddling."
"Cockroach does not support all types of protocols. I need to improve it myself to support a CouchDB on my network."
"The product must improve its disaster recovery features."
"I find the serverless offer a bit confusing."
"We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning."
"CockroachDB needs to improve store processes."
"The interface is not easy in comparison to the SQL Server. It could be more user-friendly."
"SAP SQL Anywhere needs to incorporate functionalities like SAP S/4HANA."
"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."
"A problem we are experiencing now is when doing a backup in SQL 2012 and 14."
"It is not as secure as it could be."
CockroachDB is ranked 9th in Relational Databases Tools with 10 reviews while SAP SQL Anywhere is ranked 20th in Relational Databases Tools with 6 reviews. CockroachDB is rated 8.0, while SAP SQL Anywhere is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of CockroachDB writes "Open source with extensive documentation and a University for training". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP SQL Anywhere writes "Reliable and able to expand but needs to be more secure". CockroachDB is most compared with Oracle Database, MySQL, Citus Data, Amazon Aurora and SQL Server, whereas SAP SQL Anywhere is most compared with SQL Server, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, MySQL, Oracle Database and MariaDB. See our CockroachDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere report.
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