We performed a comparison between Amazon Aurora and SAP HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Amazon Aurora is SQL standardization, it doesn't have its own syntax which is good. It has a lot of hands-off self-management type of activities, such as log rolling and auto-scaling."
"The most valuable feature is that the maintainability is offloaded to the service provider. I don't have to maintain a database or do any administrative tasks, which comes in handy."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"The solution’s scalability is good since we don’t need to take a maintenance window during unpredictable workloads. I like the solution’s behind-the-scenes happenings. It is a great feature."
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to do multiple-read and single-write. These are the kinds of features that we were interested in, and Aurora takes care of that natively."
"Aurora's compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL benefited our database management. The migration from on-premise MySQL to Aurora was similar, so we didn't need to change our source code."
"The main feature is that the processes are very flexible, they are able to be adapted to the business and their departments."
"If you want to scale with new processes and new reports, that's fairly easy."
"SAP HANA's most valuable features are monitoring, reporting, and price and stock control."
"The most valuable feature of SAP HANA is the modeling of the databases."
"Technically it resembles Oracle, but as a somewhat lighter version."
"We can save data very easily."
"The best feature of SAP HANA is column computing. The computing speed of the solution is also very high, so developers can easily develop programs through SAP HANA."
"All features are valuable."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"It is a bit costly. The features are quite good, and I wouldn't say it requires any technical improvements. But from a cost perspective, some clients wouldn't go for Aurora because of that."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"There is improvement needed to have more developer focus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have a stand-alone solution outside of Amazon. Amazon has a tendency to favor developing web-based clients, which may not always provide the fastest or most responsive solution as desired."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"I would like to see performance insights on the database based on the queries. Currently, we use SolarWinds as the monitoring tool. I would like to leverage SolarWinds’ performance insights in AWS services. SolarWinds gives larger insights when we run performance issues."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"When you do a report on a non-SAP platform, you face some compatibility problems."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"High availability and disaster recovery are very poor in HANA."
"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 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."
"In terms of improvement, the speed is not as good as we thought it would be. That is why we are trying different solutions that will be built with different technologies."
"The releases need to be more stable. It's surprising to still encounter significant bugs after ten years of the product being available."
"It is challenging to integrate it with third-party tools."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 11th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 3rd in Relational Databases Tools with 81 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while SAP HANA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon Aurora writes "Easy-to-manage platform with a valuable auto-scaling feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, MariaDB, CockroachDB and Citus Data, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Vertica. See our Amazon Aurora vs. SAP HANA report.
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