What are the major differences between databases?

Question

I\'m not fanatic on any database but I wish to see differences between vendors.

For instance, I use mostly Oracle and I see that others (MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, .

Answer 1

I am a developer on the Sybase SQL Anywhere server team. I could post all kinds of information here on SQL Anywhere (SA) features and such if you want, though I don't want to be downvoted into oblivion for posting advertising. Feel free to contact me directly if you want more information.

Here are responses to existing answers:

• SA also supports autoincrement
• SA supports || for string concatenation
• SA supports insert ... on existing update for doing a single statement that can both insert new rows and update existing ones