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What do you look for in a database?
What about:
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Price?
Well, Sybase kicks Oracle's butt hands down in regards to Total Cost of Ownership.
It's a known FACT except for those who want to go sailing with Larry.
A high-performance data warehouse can be built with Sybase for a tenth of the cost of anybody else.
"Sybase IQ for data warehouses and data marts shows real uniqueness for companies with budget and performance-problems."
Sybase was the FIRST enterprise database to be ported to Linux. I actually installed it and tried it. Where was Oracle or IBM? Worrying about their pricing models.
A 12 CPU (UltraSparcIV Cu 1.2Ghz) E2900 with 96GB of RAM plus the trimmings only costs you $332,000, but Oracle Enterprise Edition runs you $480,000 (plus support at 22%, coming out at a whopping $105,000 per year!).
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Fast and Efficient?
In the late 90's, I sat in on an Oracle sales meeting. You've seen it. Nothing more than a big smooze session. Everyone talking at 100,000 feet.
I'd asked their tech head how their replication worked. He said unappologically that it was basically table level replication.
I then asked him how long would it take to replicate a table of 1 million rows.
And what would happen if the replication DB went down after 50% of the records had been processed. Don't worry, the answers aren't worth repeating.
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Reliable?
"Sybase is technically superior to Oracle just as Ferrari Coupe is superior to East German Trabant due to the poor internal architecture of Oracle's database design."
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Easy to maintain |
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Easy to Learn
Have you ever seen the code you have to write for Oracle stored procedures? Try ugly times a million.
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A little thing called Customer Satisfaction |
Well you've found it. Sybase has a stable customer base.
Here's the fundamental truth about Oracle. It's all of the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) factor and their archaic code base.
From a TCO and performance stand point, we have no reason to look elsewhere," Klein said. TNS Media Intelligence gets good support and has gotten access to Sybase's technical experts, he said. "We get honesty and integrity (from Sybase). We don't always get that from Oracle."
Martin LaMonica, Sybase: we sell databases - September 2, 2005
Rants
The two biggest Sybase problems are that their marketing SUCKS wind. Maybe if they recruited some Oracle sales people and showed them
that they could cleanse their conscience by selling a product they can truly believe in.
The other one is old news but the saddest point is Sybase's history occurred in 1994 when Sybase's CEO sold Microsoft their database code.
Anyone who knows about marketshare knows where this move has lead. Thank goodness, Sybase basically owns the mobile database space.
Microsoft has now vaulted past Sybase to take the No. 3 spot. Microsoft's 16 percent market share in 2001 is now more than five times the size of Sybase's and trails only leaders IBM and Oracle, which have captured 34.6 percent and 32 percent, respectively.
Upside
In the opening salvo of a competitive marketing campaign, Sybase announced last Wednesday the release of an Express Edition of its flagship enterprise database product, Adaptive Server Enterprise, for the Linux community.
This is great news for web developers of all stripes as it is the only free robust database on the marketplace with full support for ANSI compliance for SQL, full-featured stored procedures and triggers and hooks for Java, .Net and XML among other web services.
Clearly Sybase is not open source. However, many web professionals suffice with MySQL and PostgreSQL, which I endorse myself as excellent production tools. However, both have lagged in bringing features to the same level as proprietary competitors. Being that Sybase is offering the free database server for production -- I would encourage developers to evaluate it (after all it does not cost you anything!). To our benefit, we may find that it raises the bar and encourages speedier development of these anticipated functions from MySQL and others on the open source side.
Sybase competitors Oracle and IBM offer developer licenses, however, none provide a production license without cost. Sybase's Express Edition has a 2 GB RAM and 5 GB disk database storage limit though that should be plenty of room for many web applications.
Analysts said Sybase is a winner in the deal because teaming with Big Blue makes its Linux giveaway software far more desirable and lends it instant credibility. Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna said the small and mid-sized enterprise market was most likely to be attracted to the offering.
Sybase (NYSE: SY) said today that it has struck a deal with IBM (NYSE: IBM) in which Big Blue will market and distribute Sybase's Linux database management software
IBM will market the Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) solution from Sybase for use on its eServer OpenPower platform. The customized version of the software is slated to be available pre-loaded onto IBM servers starting early in 2005.
Dublin, California-based Sybase was one of the first software companies to offer a Linux-friendly database offering and says that more than 40,000 companies and other organizations worldwide now use its ASE solution, which debuted in 1999.
Marketshare
All things aren't all gloom and doom. In 2002, Sybase had a 70% marketshare in China.
Vendor / Market share
IBM 34.1%
Oracle 33.7%
Microsoft 20.0%
NCR Teradata 2.9%
Sybase 2.3%
Others 6.6%
Mobile
And I wanted to say that Sybase appears to be making some smart moves, the most important of which was the acquisition of iAnywhere. In the mobile enterprise space, their products are strong players in a number of categories.
A couple of years ago, it was presumed that Sybase and Informix were out of the database game, with Oracle declared the winner.
But as mobility is forcing a re-thinking of enterprise application architectures, it appears that Oracle is nowhere to be seen: and Sybase is leading much of the vision.
Awards
Well, Sybase has won China's Customer Satisfaction award THREE years is a row. Here's their first award for Best Customer Service Award
Sybase continues it consecutive win streak amongst Linux users. Sybase has won LinuxWorld Readers Choice as the Best Linux Database for 2005. Sybase beat out MySQL and put the boots to Oracle handily. Sweet!
Sybase ASE on Linux delivers performance without compromise, providing Unix-like scalability and performance on lower-cost platforms. "Winning this award is recognition that our work on ASE, has not gone unnoticed, particularly with the introduction of our latest release -- ASE 15," said Sumit Kundu, director of Product Management and Marketing, Sybase Information Technology Solutions Group. "With over 35,000 editions of free ASE Express Edition for Linux having been downloaded, Sybase continues to gain momentum in the growing Linux market -- we were one of the first to deliver an enterprise-class RDBMS on Linux in 1998 and have won LinuxWorld Magazine's 'Best Linux Database' Reader's Choice Award every year since the awards' inception. We are very pleased to receive this confirmation of the value of Sybase ASE's innovations."
A couple of years ago, it was presumed that Sybase and Informix were out of the database game, with Oracle declared the winner.
But as mobility is forcing a re-thinking of enterprise application architectures, it appears that Oracle is nowhere to be seen: and Sybase is leading much of the vision.
Daniel Taylor, Best Linux Database - January 26, 2006
Larry Ellison: One Night In Malibu
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