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."
"It supports multiple applications and business intelligence tools."
"This solution has made financial reporting possible by allowing financial people the opportunity to set Informix to "Auto Pilot" so that they can attend other duties."
"IBM Informix benefits users with high availability and good integration capabilities."
"For IoT business cases, having Informix Enterprise Edition work on edge computers, like Raspberry Pi and using Informix replication, makes complex situations simple to build and maintain."
"The solution's stability, performance, enhanced functionality, and replication are all great features."
"Replication is a valuable feature and easy to use."
"Every version is faster than the previous."
"The UX experience is very good."
"What's most valuable in SAP HANA is that it covers the business process systems of my company. The solution also helps because it makes almost everything automated. Another valuable feature of SAP HANA is that it can be integrated with third parties and other enhancements needed by the company."
"The most valuable features I have found are speed, dashboard, and reporting."
"Anyone currently using SAP will be transitioning to HANA."
"Technically it resembles Oracle, but as a somewhat lighter version."
"We appreciate that the current, redesigned version of this solution that is much more straightforward for new users, and has been well thought out with industry best practice standards in mind."
"What I like most are the dashboards and pervasive analytics."
"The product handles high volumes very well and provides good integration."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"In my opinion, the packages could be improved. The version I use doesn't allow for packages. I can do some general procedures, but no packages like in Oracle. So, develop separate modules in SQL language. This would be most beneficial for me."
"Continue extending the SQL language for compatibility with the competition's language, including Stored Procedure Language."
"This product could be made easier to use for beginners."
"The technical support services need substantial improvement."
"The solution lacks some functionality."
"I would like to see backups from secondary servers."
"I experienced poor input/output (IO) performance."
"The user interface and CRM need to be more user-friendly."
"The product is very demanding on memory requirements."
"The initial setup of SAP HANA is complex. We did the implementation of one site, and a global deployment will take another three to four years."
"High availability and disaster recovery are very poor in HANA."
"It would be nice to know when SAP plans to stop its maintenance of a previous version of SAP ECC ERP because, at this point, anyone utilizing SAP will have no choice but to go on S/4HANA Database."
"Technical support could be better."
"The SAP ERP processes are quite complex and it can be challenging."
"The documentation can be improved in the future."
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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