We performed a comparison between SAP SQL Anywhere and SQL Server 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."We've found the solution very reliable overall. It's very fast."
"SAP SQL Anywhere is very helpful."
"It works well in general."
"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."
"Very stable relational database management system that offers ease of management, querying, and scaling. It has well-designed databases."
"SQL Server is easy to manage."
"SQL Server's performance is fine."
"SQL Server is a highly stable solution."
"Most valuable features include: high availability, clustering, save backup and recovery."
"I use it to fine tune my procedures and functions."
"The product’s most valuable features are flexibility and scalability."
"The installation was straightforward. We did not have a large installation and it took a couple of weeks to complete."
"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."
"SAP SQL Anywhere needs to incorporate functionalities like SAP S/4HANA."
"The interface is not easy in comparison to the SQL Server. It could be more user-friendly."
"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."
"SQL Server could improve the integration with nonrational database solutions, such as MongoDB."
"The pricing and quality of the product could be improved."
"Their support could be better. There should be more visibility on the progress of the ticket, and their last line of support should be more knowledgeable. Other than that, we have nothing to complain about."
"The stability of the solution should be improved in the next release. Sometimes it is great, sometimes it is troublesome. I would also like data conversion and the code pages to be a bit more straightforward."
"CAL licenses should cost less. Microsoft usually prices high for client access licenses. Server plus user client access license (CAL) licensing requires a separate Server license for each server on which the software is installed, plus a user CAL for each user accessing the server."
"Right now we don't get much technical support from Microsoft"
"Improvement in SQL Server should focus on lowering the high cost, especially for environments requiring extensive CPU and memory usage like data warehousing"
"The UX design of this system needs improvement."
SAP SQL Anywhere is ranked 20th in Relational Databases Tools with 6 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. SAP SQL Anywhere is rated 7.6, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP SQL Anywhere writes "Reliable and able to expand but needs to be more secure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". SAP SQL Anywhere is most compared with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, MySQL, Oracle Database, SAP HANA and MariaDB, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Cognos. See our SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL Server report.
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