This might be the biggest announcement from SAP you never heard of. After dropping the name Sybase from its product names last year, SAP is quietly reshaping its database platform offerings. And I mean this in a good way.
Under the Sybase name there were 2 ASE products; Sybase ASE Enterprise Edition (EE) and Sybase ASE Small Business Edition (SBE). The Sybase ASE EE product was and still is the flagship and the most commonly known edition of Sybase. But it came with a hefty price ticket. To offer a Sybase ASE database server to the SMB market space, Sybase created ASE SBE, limited to 2 CPU sockets and 8 engines on a physical server, at a very low price.
The server virtualization revolution has dramatically changed the server landscape and database servers made their transitions to the new world. The majority of newly deployed database servers are virtualized, either on premise or in the cloud. The Sybase ASE EE 15.7 database server enabled Sybase clients to make the move to the virtual servers with the introduction of the threaded kernel model. SAP ASE EE 16 continued the optimization for virtual servers and offers one of the most advanced database servers in the market.
However, Sybase ASE SBE never made the step into the virtual world and that was bad news for SMB, who are trying to save money on infrastructure costs. Hence the introduction of SAP ASE Edge Edition.
SAP ASE Edge Edition will retire the old Sybase ASE SBE. It is based on the SAP ASE EE 16 edition with a limit of 4 cores. Other than that, SAP pulled out the stops and created an entry level ASE server that packs features that other databases only offer in their enterprise edition, but set a price point that competes with other vendor’s standard edition database.
The following matrix shows the comparison between SAP ASE Edge Edition and Sybase ASE SBE. But pay close attention to the options that are now included and compare this to other vendors standard offerings.
Limits / Options
ASE Edge Edition
ASE SBE (retired)
Max Engines
No Limit
8
Max Cores OS can use
4
No Limit
Max CPU Chips
No Limit
2
Max Concurrent User Connections
No Limit
256
Options
High Availability
X
X
Disaster Recovery Package
X
X
Security and Directory Services
•
X
Encrypted Columns
•
X
Partitions
•
X
Active Messaging
X
X
Compression
•
X
In Memory Database
X
X
Advanced Backup Services (TSM)
X
X
Enterprise Connect – Oracle
X
X
Enterprise Connect – ODBC
X
X
- (included) X (Not Available)
SAP ASE Edge Edition also includes unlimited cores of SAP Replication Server Premium Edition, restricted to warm standby capabilities of SAP ASE Edge data.
If you’re running Sybase ASE SBE today in either server or user based licensing, you should take a closer look at SAP ASE Edge Edition. The savings in server virtualization alone can justify the investment.
If you’re running a shareware database server and would like to upgrade to an enterprise class database system, running on Linux and Windows servers, you should talk to us about SAP ASE Edge Edition.
If you’re planning on implementing a commercial database server in your company and or product, SAP ASE Edge Edition should be on your checklist.
Call us today at 813 322 3240 to learn more about SAP ASE Edge Edition.