We performed a comparison between IBM Informix and SAP HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Embedded Database solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The stability is incredible. I have customers with uptimes of several years."
"Replication, all levels of replication, query charting, and the MongoDB embedded are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Replication is a valuable feature and easy to use."
"IBM Informix benefits users with high availability and good integration capabilities."
"It supports in-house-built applications in .NET and VB6"
"So far, we do not have a lot of issues. It's pretty problem-free."
"The solution's stability, performance, enhanced functionality, and replication are all great features."
"It supports multiple applications and business intelligence tools."
"If you want to scale with new processes and new reports, that's fairly easy."
"The solution is stable."
"The memory is the solution's most valuable feature. It's the main feature of HANA. Others are still the regular IT databases that are on storage and are therefore much slower than HANA. The solution is quite fast."
"This solution is very fast."
"Technically it resembles Oracle, but as a somewhat lighter version."
"The user interface is very good. You can do any kind of reporting analytics from the platform."
"It is very flexible to integrate with SaaS components."
"The in-memory computing and the efficient response time are very good features."
"There should be more intelligence surrounding discovering data to be able to automatically create indexes."
"The support team could include local engineers to establish efficient communication. It will help us speed up the escalation process."
"It would be helpful to have IBM salespeople know that Informix exists, and sell it. Currently, it is completely ignored by IBM."
"The solution really doesn't add new features very often."
"The technical support services need substantial improvement."
"I would like to see backups from secondary servers."
"This product could be made easier to use for beginners."
"The solution lacks some functionality."
"I give the scalability of SAP HANA a six out of ten."
"I would have rated the solution higher if this version was not missing some key features the newer version has."
"HANA could be improved by adding analytics and development models in the institution."
"In a future release, SAP HANA should add a module for taxation, such as income tax and withholding tax."
"The solution could improve by having better migration flexibility. For example, it would be helpful if there was a way for customers could check their nonproduction and production deployments."
"The openness of the system could be more developed. The solution should go into the cloud. The cloud mechanism should be more invested."
"The challenge right now is all databases are on S4 HANA architecture. You're running it for HANA, but not all the functionalities are available. If they can speed up getting all the databases on S4 HANA that would help."
"I think that the pricing is high and it needs improvement."
IBM Informix is ranked 6th in Embedded Database with 16 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 1st in Embedded Database with 81 reviews. IBM Informix is rated 8.6, while SAP HANA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Informix writes "Quite stable and flexible but not very innovative". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". IBM Informix is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, IBM Db2 Database, MySQL and MariaDB, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Apache Spark. See our IBM Informix vs. SAP HANA report.
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