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."
"From an ERP point of view and a functionality point of view, it works very well. The benefits are in that of financial costing and material management."
"Out of the box, this solution has a lot of standard features."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"The product has efficient performance."
"You can do hierarchical alert slicing and dicing out-of-box, which is not available in other solutions. I haven't come across that in Oracle or any other software provider."
"The product is stable."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"Vertica is a columnar database where the query performance is extremely fast and it can be used for real-time integrations for API and other applications. The solution requires zero maintenance which is helpful."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"I don't need any special hardware. I can use commodity hardware, which is nice to have in a commercial solution."
"DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs."
"Bulk loads, batch loads, and micro-batch loads have made it possible for our organization to process near real-time ingestions and faster analytics."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"It takes too long to escalate problems from the first level of support."
"In the next release, I would like to see their BI component introduced with a mobile version, as it is not currently present."
"The dashboard should be simplified and made easier for exploration and decision making."
"We cannot integrate with third-party tools like Python or advanced integration options. You can't fine-tune tables within BW or generate specific views or reports."
"It's complicated to use. You need to spend a lot of time learning about it. The interface could be improved. It's not intuitive to build a data model and use their ETL tools."
"The tool is not easy to use for an end user."
"Price wise, this solution is on the higher side."
"Pricing would be a good improvement. A lot of customers think that it's very expensive and especially support is very expensive."
"There are a lot of limitations within this product and it makes things extremely hard for developers. It lacks Stored Procedure, packages, and triggers like other RDBMs."
"It's hard to make it slow for a small data volume. For large volumes, it's hard to make it work. It's also hard to make it faster, and to make it scale."
"They could improve the integration and some of the features in the cloud version."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
"Vertica seems to scale well, except for one use case where you are on a multi-node cluster. For example, if you had a nine-node cluster, one node goes down, then the eight nodes don't scale, because the absence of the node is very apparent, which is a problem. If you have nine nodes or multiple nodes, the whole idea is that if one of those nodes goes down, then you should not see an impact on the system if you have enough capacity. Even though we have enough capacity, you can still see the impact of the one node going down."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"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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