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."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 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."
"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."
"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 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."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"The in-memory computing and the efficient response time are very good features."
"Integration is the most valuable feature we use SAP HANA for."
"When we upgraded, we received more functions or more features."
"SAP HANA is vertically and horizontally scalable."
"Eases management of databases."
"I like the integration process. Also, the data is trusted by our management, and we use the data from transactions for analysis."
"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."
"The speed at which it gets the data is great."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"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."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"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."
"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."
"The inclusion of a well-performing Time Machine is vital."
"More standards would help in the future."
"The product lacks some flexibility in its settings and configurations."
"SAP HANA is not strong like Oracle when it comes to finance. They are only strong with the logistic business project."
"You cannot apply mulit-join inside the calculation views, for example, when you are joining tables."
"There are a few areas wherein there could be a patch upgrade, and that can cover up the country-specific payroll areas."
"The documentation can be improved in the future."
"FI, or the financial module of SAP, has room for improvement. It has to have some better localization for the Middle East, especially in regards to taxes and the letter of credit cycle. I would like to see better localization from the HCM."
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 YugabyteDB, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Denodo. See our Amazon Aurora vs. SAP HANA report.
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