We performed a comparison between SAP HANA and Spark SQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Hadoop solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have found that the Fiori Apps are particularly good."
"The initial setup is straightforward. It usually takes around eight months but it depends on a customer's requirements. We can spend a month or two customizing."
"It is very flexible to integrate with SaaS components."
"Some functions have good performance."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"I like the integration process. Also, the data is trusted by our management, and we use the data from transactions for analysis."
"We are using the solution for the DW system. The primary function of the solution is for the database in memory."
"This is a feature-rich product and I like all of them."
"The team members don't have to learn a new language and can implement complex tasks very easily using only SQL."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution is easy to understand if you have basic knowledge of SQL commands."
"I find the Thrift connection valuable."
"Certain data sets that are very large are very difficult to process with Pandas and Python libraries. Spark SQL has helped us a lot with that."
"Spark SQL's efficiency in managing distributed data and its simplicity in expressing complex operations make it an essential part of our data pipeline."
"The performance is one of the most important features. It has an API to process the data in a functional manner."
"This solution is useful to leverage within a distributed ecosystem."
"Ease of use could be improved in SAP HANA. I like SAP because SAP solutions can be used by anyone, which means even laymen can start working on SAP tools, but in SAP HANA modeling, you'll need to know some other technologies and sequel scripting, and you need a separate skillset, so if you don't have the skillset, you won't be able to work on SAP HANA. Making SAP HANA low-code would make it even better."
"The solution is very expensive, however. The pricing depends on the number of users and many other factors that affect licensing."
"The worst thing about SAP HANA is the price; it's very expensive. The licensing cost, implementation cost, hosting cost, and appliance cost are all high."
"SAP HANA is not perfect and they could improve by having more options and more integration."
"I would like more technical documentation. I would like it to be easier to find online help or have a better launch-based service. SAP has a lot of functions, so we need more best practices and more detailed documentation on industry solutions. For example, it would be good to have documentation on why a certain process needs to be set up and which kinds of configurations need to be set up."
"SAP HANA isn't user-friendly, and it's very hard to train newcomers to use it."
"SAP HANA is a very proprietary tool and there's not as much support available for it as there is for an SQL Server (which is more popular)."
"In a future release, SAP HANA should add a module for taxation, such as income tax and withholding tax."
"I've experienced some incompatibilities when using the Delta Lake format."
"In terms of improvement, the only thing that could be enhanced is the stability aspect of Spark SQL."
"Being a new user, I am not able to find out how to partition it correctly. I probably need more information or knowledge. In other database solutions, you can easily optimize all partitions. I haven't found a quicker way to do that in Spark SQL. It would be good if you don't need a partition here, and the system automatically partitions in the best way. They can also provide more educational resources for new users."
"Anything to improve the GUI would be helpful."
"In the next update, we'd like to see better performance for small points of data. It is possible but there are better tools that are faster and cheaper."
"There are many inconsistencies in syntax for the different querying tasks."
"The solution needs to include graphing capabilities. Including financial charts would help improve everything overall."
"This solution could be improved by adding monitoring and integration for the EMR."
SAP HANA is ranked 1st in Embedded Database with 81 reviews while Spark SQL is ranked 4th in Hadoop with 14 reviews. SAP HANA is rated 8.4, while Spark SQL is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spark SQL writes "Offers the flexibility to handle large-scale data processing". SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Apache Spark, whereas Spark SQL is most compared with Apache Spark, IBM Db2 Big SQL, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and Netezza Analytics. See our SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL report.
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