We performed a comparison between BigQuery and SAP Business Warehouse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The interface is what I find particularly valuable."
"BigQuery excels at structuring data, performing predictions, and conducting insightful analyses and it leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities, powered by Google's Duarte AI."
"When integrating their system into the cloud-based solutions, we were able to increase their efficiency and overall productivity twice compared with their on-premises option."
"The setup is simple."
"It has a proprietary way of storing and accessing data in its own data store and is 100% managed without you needing to install anything. There is no need to arrange for any infrastructure to be able to use this solution."
"It has a well-structured suite of complimentary tools for data integration and so forth."
"It's similar to a Hadoop cluster, except it's managed by Google."
"There are some performance features like partitioning, which you can do based on an integer, and it improves the performance a lot."
"What I like most about SAP Business Warehouse is that it's a seamless integration platform. A valuable feature in the tool is the monitoring alert that makes you aware of what process chain has failed. There's no manual monitoring required if you have configured an alert system, so the process chain can run in the background, and you can get alerts about it. The functionalities I find good in SAP Business Warehouse are alerting and monitoring. If you have configured the tool and have integrated it with SAP Solution Manager, then it's a good product to use."
"In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the advanced structuring of data capabilities. You can get different structures of data to suit your needs."
"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."
"The real-time information is great."
"Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great."
"What I like most about SAP Business Warehouse is its ability to feed data into new, multiple systems in various formats. It can open its data to any system over gateway services or a portal or application that needs to consume and analyze data."
"I like that it integrates to open-source."
"The main challenges are in the areas of performance and cost optimizations."
"We'd like to have more integrations with other technologies."
"For greater flexibility and ease of use, it would be beneficial if BigQuery offered more third-party add-ons and connectors, particularly for databases that don't have built-in integration options."
"The price could be better. Compared to competing solutions, BigQuery is expensive. It's only suitable for enterprise customers, not small and medium-sized businesses, as they cannot afford this kind of solution. In the next release, it would be better if they improved their AI bot. Although machine learning and artificial intelligence are doing wonders, there is still a lot of room to enhance them."
"I understand that Snowflake has made some improvements on its end to further reduce costs, so I believe BigQuery can catch up."
"They could enhance the platform's user accessibility."
"With other columnar databases like Snowflake, you can actually increase your VM size or increase your machine size, and you can buy more memory and it will start working faster, but that's not available in BigQuery. You have to actually open a ticket and then follow it up with Google support."
"The product’s performance could be much faster."
"There is room for improvement from a technical perspective."
"I'm not sure if our issue is related to BW or the Analysis Office. However, we're having performance issues in terms of time. It takes a long time to generate the report."
"Areas for improvement in SAP Business Warehouse include enhancing scheduling and monitoring tools, as well as improving communication about hidden features to make them more accessible to users."
"The solution could offer better connectivity with other databases."
"In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendly interfaces and performance issues be addressed."
"SAP Business Warehouse could integrate better with other ETL tools."
"It takes more work to get the data, including reporting on that data, because some coding is required, and a significant level of transformation is needed when using SAP Business Warehouse."
"The problem with BW, and the factor that differentiated it from the original BW, is that you only get limited functionality with your runtime license. So, you have to pay extra for extracting data."
BigQuery is ranked 5th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 31 reviews while SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 9th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews. BigQuery is rated 8.2, while SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BigQuery writes "Expandable and easy to set up but needs more local data residency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". BigQuery is most compared with Snowflake, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Vertica and Dremio, whereas SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, SAP BW4HANA, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and Amazon Redshift. See our BigQuery vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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