SAP SQL Anywhere Features
Database Features (7)
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Storage
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Availability
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Stability
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Scalability
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Security
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Data Manipulation
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Query Language
Administration (4)
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Supported Databases
Supports different database platforms and data types. Typically integrates with a variety of existing databases.
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Data Management
Administrators can access and organize data related to incidents to produce reports or make data more navigable.
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Logging and Reporting
Provides required reports to manage business. Provides adequate logging to troubleshoot and support auditing.
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API / integrations
Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.
Governance (3)
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Compliance
Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.
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Access Management
Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.
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Multi-Factor Authentication
Requires a second level of authentication, such as sms messaging or customized tokens, to access data.
Protection (4)
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Database Activity Monitoring
Documents the actions related to the database. Alerts users of incidents and abnormal activities and documents the access point.
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Firewall
Protects database and sensitive information from a variety of attacks and malware threats.
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Data Masking
Protects sensitive data by disguising or encrypting data, keeping it usable by the organization and approved parties.
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Audits
Perform ad-hoc or ongoing IT audits at different levels of the company.
Support (4)
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Text Search
Provides support for international character sets and full text search.
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Data Types
Supports multiple data types like primitive, structured, document etc.
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Languages
Supports multiple procedural programming languages like PL/PGSQL, Perl, Python etc.
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Operating Systems
Available on multiple operating systems like Linux, Windows, MacOS etc.
Security (4)
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Database Locking
Prevents other users and applications from accessing data while it is being updated to avoid data loss or update.
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Access Control
Allows permissions to be granted or revoked in the database, schema or table levels.
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Encryption
Built-in native encryption with enterprise key management.
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Authentication
Provides multi-factor authentication with certificates.
Performance (5)
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Disaster Recovery
Provides data recovery functionality to protect and restore data in a database.
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Data Concurrency
Allows multi-version concurrency control.
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Workload Management
Handles workloads, from single machines to data warehouses or web services with many concurrent users.
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Advanced Indexing
Allows users to quickly retrieve data through various types of indexing like B-tree, hash table etc.
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Query Optimizer
Helps interpret SQL queries and determine the fastest method of execution.
Management (4)
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Data Schema
Data is organized as a set of tables with columns and rows like a table structure.
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Query Language
Allows users to create, update and retrieve data in a database.
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ACID - Complaint
Adheres to ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability), a set of database transaction properties.
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Data Replication
Provides log-based or/and trigger-based replication.






