CA Datacom vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ThinkSQL vs. Wing Python IDE Comparison Chart

Enable the continuous availability of your business applications. You need a reliable database repository with enterprise-wide, high-volume workload and fault-tolerant capabilities. CA Datacom®, and its family of rDBMS products, provides you with that repository. The rock-solid database features zIIP specialty processor exploitation for improved, cost-effective database management. Let’s you more easily participate in mobile-to-mainframe initiatives, cloud, web and big data analytics using JDBC and ODBC. Manage high-volume workloads, and in each new release, utilizes new hardware technologies with an improved memory optimization technique. A DBA or Systems Programmer can query the Dynamic System Tables within a Multi-User Facility region in a given LPAR to monitor and manage the environment more easily with modern tooling. The modern day developer, relatively new to the mainframe can maintain source using a modern/open IDE such as Visual Studio Code or Eclipse CHE.

ThinkSQL is a powerful, cross-platform relational database management system designed for modern operating systems and hardware. It aims to comply fully with the ISO SQL standard to provide an open and flexible SQL server for your applications. Compliance with the SQL standard means it supports transactions, sub-selects, views, set operators (union, except, intersect), access privileges and comprehensive referential constraints to ensure the integrity of your data. ThinkSQL uses a multi-versioning engine to provide consistent views of data and concurrent access to rows without locking. The server also has stored procedures and functions (using the standard syntax), and has support for large multimedia objects. It's easy to install, runs on Windows ® and Linux ®, and has native ODBC, JDBC™, dbExpress™ and Python drivers so your applications can connect directly from any platform.