We performed a comparison between SAP BW4HANA and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The processes are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"We like that it is an SAP product, so we can easily connect with the SAP ERP system."
"The most valuable feature is that we can transform a huge amount of data and apply business logic as per the requirements."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"The solution seamlessly integrates with SAP products."
"One significant advantage of SAP BW/4HANA is the direct integration with the SAP HANA database, providing seamless access to real-time analytics. Additionally, it enables real-time data integration. We don't need to rely on historical data alone; we can provide reporting and features based on real-time information."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that the infrastructure is easy to understand."
"The product is stable."
"Vertica is a great product because customers can compress and code data. The infrastructure that data warehouse solutions need is a commodity server so that customers don't have to invest in infrastructure."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."
"I don't need any special hardware. I can use commodity hardware, which is nice to have in a commercial solution."
"The hardware usage and speed has been the most valuable feature of this solution. It is very fast and has saved us a lot of money."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the unmatchable database performance."
"The extensibility and efficiency provided by their C++ SDK."
"I enjoy the cybersecurity and backup features."
"I would like more integration."
"The speed of operations could be a little faster."
"There's one area where the other vendors have an upper edge, which is the data lake. I think SAP is trying to figure out whether to stick with IQ, their own data lake solution, or push customers toward customer-preferred vendors, like Azure Data Lake, AWS, or any other provider."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
"I don't see SAP actively supporting the solution now...a better support from SAP would be appreciated."
"They have taken out a few BW functionalities when they redesigned this. The way of multi-dimensional thinking and star schema got a little bit lost. It may be because of the cost, but certain functionalities that were previously implemented from the BW side should come back again in the whole product. It is a young product. It is version 2.0. In time, I'm pretty sure they will come back again because otherwise, it limits the potential of the product, and I have to do a lot of modeling towards that direction. For me, the analytics focus is too much. It is not cube-oriented in that way, so its functionality is limited. It is not really technically limited in the back end; it is more limited in the front end. It has a data-mining mindset for SQL developers. The navigational attributes should be easy. It needs to be built in models. I see the data mark cube or understanding that the composite provider needs to be models in a cube coming back. The multi-dimensional star schema approach and the reporting need to be done as well as possible to leverage the star scheme below. This is definitely not understood by many consultants and even composite providers for star schema. They always think in terms of flat tables, which is limiting. You need to build the right dimensions, objects, and so on. If you can build this in BW4HANA, then you have this understanding that BW4HANA is not forcing you in this direction, but it should force you a bit better in this direction. Maybe a few elements which were in use in BW should come back again. It would help the community to determine the direction to build on the cube. You can have maybe 50 elements, and then you can expand it to what you need by leveraging navigation. So far, this functionality is a little bit limited in the tool, and it is not thought through, but I think it will come. They should also be adding more capabilities for the transformation between different objects. In BW, this is currently limited, especially towards composite providers. It is a bit complex basically in the building. You have to have a lot of knowledge as well as know how to do it better because it is a bit different from BW. There is not too much expertise currently in the consulting markets. Many are trying to build something, but it may be based on their knowledge of what they have from the BW and HANA side. You have to find the right mix from both of them at this time. We also have HANA Native. These are our two different sync sources basically, and we have approaches to connect nicely, but it is hard to manage your team because a lot of coaching is required."
"I cannot integrate it with my other tools. It's not possible to do something in the predictive analysis. Mobile reporting is also not available."
"The tool is not easy to use for an end user."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"Very bad support, I would rate it two out of 10."
"Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be."
"The integration with AI has room for improvement."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and Oracle Database Appliance, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. Vertica report.
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