SQLAnywhere

Based on 265 responses from 65 people, we've built up the following picture of SQLAnywhere

Ranked high for:

  1. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  2. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  3. This database has a low footprint
  4. This database can be a bit arcane
  5. This database has an unusual data model
  6. This database is good for querying time series
  7. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  8. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  9. This database is very easy to get started with
  10. This database has very good read performance

Ranked low for:

  1. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  2. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  3. This database has a good community around it
  4. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  5. This database is very reliable
  6. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  7. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  8. This database is highly scalable
  9. This database is good for querying graph structures
  10. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data

Most similar to

  1. BerkeleyDB
  2. Tokyo Cabinet
  3. dbm
  4. Riak
  5. h2

Most dissimilar from

  1. kdb
  2. PostgreSQL
  3. Phoenix
  4. MySQL
  5. MSSQL Server

All statements

  1. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  2. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  3. This database has a low footprint
  4. This database can be a bit arcane
  5. This database has an unusual data model
  6. This database is good for querying time series
  7. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  8. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  9. This database is very easy to get started with
  10. This database has very good read performance
  11. This database has a very flexible data model
  12. This database has very good write performance
  13. I am familiar with this database
  14. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  15. This database has a very restrictive data model
  16. This database has a good story for replication
  17. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  18. This database is good for querying graph structures
  19. This database is highly scalable
  20. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  21. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  22. This database is very reliable
  23. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  24. This database has a good community around it
  25. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  26. This database is easy for non-programmers to use