SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) Alternatives (January 2026)

Make Big Data your biggest ally with SAP IQ software, our extreme-scale relational database management system (RDBMS).

Rapidly design and deploy embedded database applications that run remotely on servers, laptops, handhelds, and smartphones with SAP SQL Anywhere relational database management system (RDBMS) solutions.

SAP HANA Cloud is a single database as a service (DBaaS) foundation for modern applications and analytics across all enterprise data.

MariaDB provides enterprise open source database and cloud managed database services to support scalability, mission-critical deployments, and more.

IBM Db2 is the database to run your mission-critical workloads. Power low-latency transactions and real-time analytics across any cloud, hybrid or on-prem.

IBM Informix is an embeddable, high-performance database for integrating SQL, NoSQL, JSON, time-series and spatial data. It is available as a managed service on IBM Cloud, as standalone software, and within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

NoSQL Database can be run in the cloud or on-premises for applications that require either flexible data models, workloads, demanding predictable, lighting fast access to data or easy to use APIs.

The Oracle Berkeley DB family of open source, embeddable databases provides developers with fast, reliable, local persistence with zero administration. Often deployed as an 'edge' database, Oracle Berkeley DB provides very high performance, reliability, scalability, and availability for application use cases that do not require SQL

Make better decisions faster with in-memory database management systems from SAP that optimize storage, compliance, and analytics..