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.
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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).