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We performed a comparison between Actian PSQL, Oracle Database In-Memory, and SAP HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Actian PSQL is easy to configure and the performance is affordable."

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"We can integrate it with any data sources as well.""We use the tool for real-time data transfer for risk management purposes. In a trading system, conversions happen fast. We use the product to handle fast transactions with low latency.""The most valuable feature is that Database-In-Memory is more consistent and faster than traditional databases as it requires fewer CPUs to process instructions.""Security is the most valuable feature.""It efficiently handles low-code data and supports read-and-write operations for clustering.""The solution's ROI is excellent.""Oracle Database In-Memory is a suite of features that improves performance for real-time analytics and mixed workloads.""The solution is very fast."

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"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.""We can save data very easily.""The solution offers advanced features that the company was struggling to implement.""The solution is marvelous because it controls everything including workflow and that makes our company more productive.""We have found that the Fiori Apps are particularly good.""SAP HANA is vertically and horizontally scalable.""It is very stable and very innovative. You can integrate many applications with it.""We like that the product is both vertically and horizontally scalable, allowing us to do around 86 percent compression of documentation from 50 to seven terabytes."

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Cons
"We need to improve the security options for the on-premise option."

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"I would like Oracle Database In-Memory to include a data replication feature.""The solution is quite expensive.""It would be good if Oracle could reduce downtime when transferring from non-In-Memory to In-Memory.""We use some partitions in In-Memory. We have a very large table and a low dose. It is very expensive in data to load all of them into In-Memory. It takes up more memory slots in the server, as well as a lot of RAM. We use last partitions on the table. We always need to create a script and make a schedule that can load a last partition in In-Memory. Oracle doesn't have features to do this automatically. I would like them to allow us to load last partitions, as well as other table partitions, in In-Memory. I think a good feature would do that automatically, letting you see a table, load a large partition, and monitor loading memory. It's quite a good feature.""The query optimization and backup features should be added.""The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required.""The pricing could be improved. It would ideal if it was more reasonable.""Oracle should include column store or advanced query optimization so a database can be optimized by enabling analytic queries to run faster."

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"There could be better management for faster updates, last year there were some changes in India to the e-invoicing feature.""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.""While new users to this solution have the benefit of the new design, existing ERP users may experience issues with migrating legacy data. We would like to see development of ready-made tools that allow for easy mapping when upgrading.""In a future release, SAP HANA should add a module for taxation, such as income tax and withholding tax.""The product lacks some flexibility in its settings and configurations.""What needs improvement in SAP HANA is its automation, in particular, it needs more enhancements in that area.""The interface is a little bit hard to customize. You almost have to consult the SAP original developer to change it.""The solution needs to work on its performance and make it faster."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We have found Actian PSQL to be affordable."
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  • "Database In-Memory is priced a bit higher than its competitors like Microsoft."
  • "The pricing is pretty good so I rate it an eight out of ten."
  • "Oracle Database In-Memory is expensive."
  • "I rate the pricing a zero out of ten because Database In-Memory is too costly."
  • "It's quite costly and it comes with a fixed price."
  • "The solution's pricing is high."
  • "The product is expensive."
  • "There is a need to make a yearly payment towards the licensing costs, after which there is any to pay towards the support cost attached to the solution."
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  • "Set up a consortium of consulting partners and hardware vendors to define your tech. Landscape TCO (total cost of ownership) and then approach the OEM for pricing (on-premise or on cloud or a hybrid model). Check if you can bring your own licenses for some of the existing application licenses on the new platform, to reduce TCO."
  • "People who are technical will accept the cost, but financially they will assess whether this solution will bring them revenue or not. People often ask, how will I profit when the cost is so high?"
  • "It is expensive, which isn't a problem for us because SAP HANA is processing the data so fast."
  • "SAP HANA is an expensive product."
  • "It is expensive."
  • "Setup and licensing require planning and proper budgeting, as it is not cheap."
  • "The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive."
  • "The price of this product is good."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Actian PSQL is easy to configure and the performance is affordable.
    Top Answer:It would be great to have some sizing guides to configure the on-premise software to make it easier. We need to improve… more »
    Top Answer:We use Actian PSQL for analytics purposes.
    Top Answer:We can integrate it with any data sources as well.
    Top Answer:The cost of the product is high. There is a need to make a yearly payment towards the licensing costs, after which there… more »
    Top Answer:The platform’s pricing needs improvement.
    Top Answer:Based on my work with SAP HANA, the biggest benefit that it can bring to your business is total data management. This… more »
    Top Answer:We have been using SAP HANA for a fairly short period of time and have only taken advantage of their customer support… more »
    Top Answer:SAP HANA is fairly easy to set up, however, I do not think a complete beginner can do it. You certainly need some… more »
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    Also Known As
    PSQL, Pervasive PSQL
    SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance, HANA
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    Overview
    Actian PSQL is the perfect solution for packaged business applications. It is one of the most reliable, low maintenance, high-performance database management systems in the world.

    Oracle Database In-Memory transparently accelerates analytics by orders of magnitude while simultaneously speeding up mixed-workload OLTP. With Oracle Database In-Memory, users get immediate answers to business questions that previously took hours.

    Oracle Database In-Memory delivers leading-edge in-memory performance without the need to restrict functionality, or accept compromises, complexity and risk. Deploying Oracle Database In-Memory with any existing Oracle Database compatible application is as easy as flipping a switch - no application changes are required. Oracle Database In-Memory is fully integrated with the Oracle Database’s renowned scale-up, scale-out, storage tiering, availability, and security technologies making it the most industrialstrength offering on the market.

    The ability to easily perform real-time data analysis together with real-time transaction processing on all existing applications enables organizations to transform into Real-Time Enterprises that quickly make data-driven decisions, respond instantly to customer demands, and continuously optimize all key processes.

    For more information on Oracle Database In-Memory, visit Oracle.com

    SAP HANA, also known as SAP High-performance Analytics Appliance, is a multi-model database that stores data in its memory, allowing users to avoid disk storage. The product combines its robust database with services for creating applications. SAP HANA is faster than other database management systems (DBMS) because it stores data in column-based tables in main memory and brings online analytical processing (OLAP) and online transaction processing (OLTP) together.

    The column-oriented in-memory database design allows users to run high-speed transactions alongside advanced analytics, all in a single system. This provides companies with the ability to process very large amounts of data with low latency and query data in an instant. By combining multiple data management capabilities, the solution simplifies IT, helps businesses with innovations, and facilitates digital transformation.

    The solution is structured into five groups of capabilities, categorized as:

    • Database design
    • Database management
    • Application development
    • Advanced analytics
    • Data virtualization

    There are three more SAP products that work alongside SAP HANA and complete the experience for users together. SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a ready-to-run cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP). SAP BW/4HANA is a packaged data warehouse, based on SAP HANA, which allows users to consolidate data across the enterprise to get a consistent view of their data. Finally, SAP Cloud is a single database as a service (DBaaS) foundation for modern applications and analytics across all enterprise data. All three products can combine with SAP HANA to deliver to users an optimized experience regarding their data.

    SAP HANA Features

    Each architectural group of capabilities of SAP HANA has various features that users can benefit from. These include:

    • Parallel processing database: SAP HANA utilizes a single platform to run transactional and analytical workloads.

    • ACID compliance: This feature ensures compliance with requirements for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) standards.

    • Multi-tenancy: This feature allows multiple tenant databases to run in one system while sharing the same memory and processors.

    • Multi-tier storage and persistent memory support: SAP HANA's native storage extension is a built-in capability to manage between memory and persistent storage, including SAP HANA Cloud Data Lake.

    • Scaling: The scaling feature supports terabytes of data in a single server and distributes large tables across multiple servers in a cluster to scale further.

    • Data modeling: This feature consists of graphical modeling tools that enable collaboration between stakeholders and the creation of models to execute complex business logic and data transformation in real time.

    • Stored procedures: The product has a native language to build stored procedures and uses advanced capabilities to create complex logic.

    • Administration: This feature consists of administration tools for various platform lifecycle, performance, and management operations and automations.

    • Security: SAP HANA provides its users with real-time data anonymization features to extract value from data while protecting privacy.

    • Availability and recovery: The tool supports high availability and disaster recovery through an array of techniques, including backup, storage mirroring, synchronous, asynchronous, and multitarget system replication.

    • Extended application services: Through its built-in application server, users can develop services such as REST and ODATA, as well as web applications that can run on multiple locations.

    • Client access: The product offers clients the ability to access it via other application platforms and languages, including Java, JavaScript, R, and Go.

    • Application lifecycle management: This set of features facilitates the building and packaging of applications, transporting them for development to test to production, and then deploying them.

    • Application development: This feature consists of a set of tools that offer application development on premises and in the Cloud. The programming language ABAP includes additional optimized features to build extensions to SAP applications.

    • Search: The search feature uses SQL to locate text promptly across multiple columns and textual content.

    • Spatial processing: This product feature provides native support for spatial data types and spatial functions.

    • Graph: Through this feature, users of the product can store and process highly connected data using a property graph.

    • Streaming analytics: This feature combines various data sources that users can utilize to discover trends over a set period.

    • Data integration and replication: The solution offers comprehensive features to handle all data integration scenarios.

    • Data federation: This feature allows users to perform queries on remote data sources in real time with data federation.

    • Caching: The capacity to cache data provides users with the ability to optimize federated queries against remote sources of data.

    SAP HANA Benefits

    SAP HANA provides many benefits for its users. These include:

    • This solution offers a high level of data and application security, beginning from a secure setup and providing continuous support.

    • SAP HANA offers augmentation for applications and analytics with built-in machine learning (ML).

    • The solution works in a timely manner, as it provides a response to queries within seconds in large production applications.

    • SAP HANA simplifies work, as it provides a single gateway to all user data with advanced data virtualization.

    • The product is very flexible, as it allows users to deploy applications in a public or private cloud, in multiple clouds, on premises, or hybrid.

    • SAP HANA scales easily for data volume and concurrent users across a distributed environment.

    • This is a powerful solution in terms of querying large datasets with a massively parallel processing (MPP) database.

    • SAP HANA is a versatile product that supports hybrid transactional and analytical processing as well as many data types.

    • The product provides a smaller data footprint with no data duplication or advanced compression, and reduces data silos.

    Reviews from Real Users

    According to a database consultant at a pharma/biotech company, SAP HANA is a very robust solution with good data access.

    Bruno V., owner at LAVORO AUTOM INF E COM LTDA, likes SAP HANA because the product offers advanced features, helps reduce hours, and makes it easy to find what you need.

    Sample Customers
    Datamatics, Medical Data Vision, Inferenda, Sheetz, SecureAlert, Zilliant
    Shanghai Customs
    Unilever, NHS 24, adidas Group, CHIO Aachen, Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), Bangkok Airways Public Company Limited
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Manufacturing Company18%
    Government12%
    Computer Software Company12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government8%
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    Manufacturing Company16%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Energy/Utilities Company10%
    Retailer8%
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    Manufacturing Company14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
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    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise67%
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