We performed a comparison between Apache Hadoop and SAP Business Warehouse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I liked that Apache Hadoop was powerful, had a lot of tools, and the fact that it was free and community-developed."
"What I like about Apache Hadoop is that it's for big data, in particular big data analysis, and it's the easier solution. I like the data processing feature for AI/ML use cases the most because some solutions allow me to collect data from relational databases, while Hadoop provides me with more options for newer technologies."
"The ability to add multiple nodes without any restriction is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very powerful and very cheap."
"The solution is easy to expand. We haven't seen any issues with it in that sense. We've added 10 servers, and we've added two nodes. We've been expanding since we started using it since we started out so small. Companies that need to scale shouldn't have a problem doing so."
"Its integration is Hadoop's best feature because that allows us to support different tools in a big data platform."
"The performance is pretty good."
"We selected Apache Hadoop because it is not dependent on third-party vendors."
"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its capabilities to connect to Excel and to slice and dice."
"Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great."
"The product is very stable."
"The most useful feature has been he ability to feed data into multiple systems in various formats."
"Now, because of the HANA integration, the hard disk and RAM are together, and because of that, the output is very quick and very fast actually."
"In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable."
"The solution has functionality that makes it easy for end-users to readily extract data directly from Business Warehouse into Excel and carry on their analysis on their own."
"It would be good to have more advanced analytics tools."
"Real-time data processing is weak. This solution is very difficult to run and implement."
"The upgrade path should be improved because it is not as easy as it should be."
"The load optimization capabilities of the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"General installation/dependency issues were there, but were not a major, complex issue. While migrating data from MySQL to Hive, things are a little challenging, but we were able to get through that with support from forums and a little trial and error."
"I think more of the solution needs to be focused around the panel processing and retrieval of data."
"The stability of the solution needs improvement."
"I mentioned it definitely, and this is probably the only feature we can improve a little bit because the terminal and coding screen on Hadoop is a little outdated, and it looks like the old C++ bio screen. If the UI and UX can be improved slightly, I believe it will go a long way toward increasing adoption and effectiveness."
"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."
"I would like to see a different end solution in order to read the data and attract internal users."
"You can start quickly but, when you have to get a little more detailed, when you have to change something, when you have to solve problems, it's not that easy. It's easy to start but evolving is not that easy."
"In the next release, my suggestion would be to have user-friendly interfaces and performance issues be addressed."
"The way the data is stored is kind of rigid in SAP BW as a product. It could be more flexible so that when we are designing a solution, we can design our own data structures and try to improve performance."
"So far, the initial setup process in our company has not been easy enough for us to understand."
"It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore."
"SAP Business Warehouse could integrate better with other ETL tools."
Apache Hadoop is ranked 5th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews. Apache Hadoop is rated 7.8, while SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apache Hadoop writes "A file system for data collection that contains needed information and files". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". Apache Hadoop is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, Snowflake and Teradata, whereas SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and Amazon Redshift. See our Apache Hadoop vs. SAP Business Warehouse report.
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