Sybase

Based on 872 responses from 172 people, we've built up the following picture of Sybase

Ranked high for:

  1. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  2. This database has a very restrictive data model
  3. This database is highly scalable
  4. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  5. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  6. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  7. This database is very reliable
  8. This database has very good write performance
  9. This database has a good story for replication
  10. This database has a low footprint

Ranked low for:

  1. This database has a good community around it
  2. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  3. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  4. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  5. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  6. This database has a very flexible data model
  7. This database is good for querying time series
  8. This database is very easy to get started with
  9. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  10. I am familiar with this database

Most similar to

  1. Oracle
  2. DB2
  3. MSSQL Server
  4. GenieDB
  5. Memcachedb

Most dissimilar from

  1. Sqlite
  2. Flat files
  3. Derby
  4. h2
  5. Excel

All statements

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