Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
by pid-1 on Friday September 09, 2022 @07:18AM
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I've seen Sybase being used by a product sold to telecom operators. If I understand correctly it's most important feature was doing distributed in memory analytics before stuff like Spark or Presto existed.
Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
by JackFr on Friday September 09, 2022 @07:54AM
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Well they do also have a columnar product SybaseIQ that actually has some adoption. But if that was ASE, their SQL server that would be the first I’d heard of in like 15 years.
Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
by taway19920706 on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:07AM
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Trivia time...
Back in the 90s Sybase was the only "major" database that SAP didn't support, ostensibly because it didn't support row-level locking, only page-level. Support for SQL Server 6.5 was added in 1993/1994 with the assistance of Microsoft (SQL Server also only supported page-level locking at the time and was still based largely on Sybase). Sybase ASE was only supported by SAP many years later, after they'd bought the company (primarily, I believe for the now-discontinued mobile products).
(For those who don’t know Sybase supports an SQL implementation which is seemingly used nowhere except sales and trading for Wall Street banks, who largely adopted it in the 90’s and have been slow to move off. MS SQL Server was originally a port of Sybase.)