In “Little Big Man,” Dustin Hoffman, at the age of 121, recounts his life to a journalist. The images narrate how, since he was a child, among whites and Indians, he bravely faced countless adventures. 

I dare to compare him to SQL Anywhere, “our” little relational database which, despite its lightness and versatility, has characteristics that make it great. 

“Little” because it installs in minutes, has low resource consumption such as RAM and disk, and minimizes the need for administrator intervention by automating most management tasks. 

“Great” because it provides referential integrity, stored procedures, proxy tables, row-level security, high availability, user and system event management, in-memory mode, intra-query parallelism, database mirroring, advanced encryption, monitoring, scalability, synchronization, etc.

Born in the ’90s from the Canadian company Watcom, acquired by Sybase in 1995, and then passed to SAP in 2010, we have followed its evolution and commercialization with technicians and salespeople, mainly offering the OEM license. 

A story important to us and as light as the bits that make up that DBMS.

Written by Andrea Guidi