SAP SQL Anywhere Alternatives (January 2026)

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

Drive faster, more reliable online transaction processing (OLTP) for less with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. The high-performance SQL database server uses a relational model to power transaction-based application on premise or in the cloud.

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

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..

Small, fast, reliable database management system Persistent and/or in-memory data storage for edge-cloud, powerful for professional developers

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.

Unlock meaning from all of your organization’s data – structured or unstructured – with SAP Data Services software. Turn your data into a trusted, ever-ready resource with some of the very best functionality for data integration, quality, and cleansing.