We performed a comparison between MariaDB 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."What I like best about MariaDB is that it is open-source and reliable."
"The solution's high availability is its most valuable aspect."
"It is an absolutely stable solution."
"MariaDB performs well as the backend database for our cloud-based telephony solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is a relational database, which is fairly reliable...It is a stable solution."
"It is a scalable solution. It easily scales up and scales down."
"It's open source."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is a cloud-based tool, so it is pretty fast."
"It works well in general."
"The auto-backup replication is a perfect feature. That is the feature I liked the most."
"We've found the solution very reliable overall. It's very fast."
"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."
"Could have more integration with user platforms."
"I'd like to see improved materialized views, like the ability to save select queries. This feature is missing in MariaDB compared to other relational databases like Oracle and SQL Server."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"The solution can improve by having support for more integration. However, at this time it is working well for us."
"MariaDB can improve by adding more features. There are a lot of features, which are available in Oracle, and which are not available in MariaDB. We hope they will introduce the features soon."
"The dashboard and pricing need improvement."
"The solution should do some fine-tuning on maybe the transaction per second so that users can get more than they can on the Microsoft SQL Server."
"The scaling for database online transactions needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"A problem we are experiencing now is when doing a backup in SQL 2012 and 14."
MariaDB is ranked 5th in Relational Databases Tools with 51 reviews while SAP SQL Anywhere is ranked 20th in Relational Databases Tools with 6 reviews. MariaDB is rated 8.2, while SAP SQL Anywhere is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Simultaneously use active server capabilities but lacks the maturity ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP SQL Anywhere writes "Reliable and able to expand but needs to be more secure". MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, Firebird SQL and MySQL, whereas SAP SQL Anywhere is most compared with SQL Server, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, MySQL, Oracle Database and SAP HANA. See our MariaDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere report.
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