SQL Server or Sybase: Which database is better for finacial services?

  • SQL Server
  • Sybase
Please select one to answer and see the result

Answers

SQL Server - 5Sybase - 11
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
it has the functionality needed and performs well above average
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
SAP couldn't afford either Oracle or Microsoft and since Sybase was on the way out, SAP rescued a failing database server
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
yeah
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Sybase Suck
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Sybase Suck
  • Anonymous . September 2022
low resources for a high power
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Have dealt with 5 SQL databases in medical practices all were buggy and slow on queries. Sybase just works and is fast. I'm talking data bases with 40,000 records. SQL always seems slow and buggy and bloated.

  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
SQL Server is faster than Sybase and if you are running your apps in Windows environment then there is no reason for chosing sybase.


SQL Server is cheaper and better than sybase.

  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
becoz it's price is less than sql server
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
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  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
More reliable solution.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
It is more stable than Oracle and SQL Server
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Simply because SQL server only copied the Sybase. Nothing beats the original.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
1. There are many large players in the financial industry who have significant investments in Sybase. This means there's a ready supply of DBA's who know both the industry and the technology.

2. Sybase has a data warehousing solution called Sybase IQ, which does lots of optimization specific to data warehouses automatically. It is a 'sparse database' model, storing all unique values and then references to those values, much like is done with varchar2 storage. This saves lots of space, and allows for faster queries if the queries are large. Caution, IQ is built for a few large queries; if you throw lots of small ones at it, it will choke / run very slow, so don't do that.

3. Sybase has available drivers in Perl, Python, etc., and runs on many different OS's (Linux especially). Not true for SQL server, which is a Microsoft-OS-ONLY DBMS.

4. Sybase has a reputation for handling very, very large datasets easily. Terabyte-sized tables are normal. MS SQL Server has a reputation for being optimized for small tables, and choking on large ones.

5. MS SQL Server has a very strange idea of backup / admin tools. These did not handle continuous backup (keeping the DB online thru a backup is a normal thing). Note, this might be fixed now. Sybase has always had this feature.

just my opinion. http://justanyone.blogspot.com / Kevin J. Rice
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Top rated, promising technologies and the reason behind SAP acquired,
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
SQL Server doesn't support OS's outside Windows.

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