We performed a comparison between Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop and SAP HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Hadoop solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is helpful to gather and process data."
"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."
"Very good end-to-end security features."
"Cloudera is a very manageable solution with good support."
"The most valuable feature is that I can use CDH for almost all use cases across all industries, including the financial sector, public sector, private retailers, and so on."
"We're now able to store large volumes of data through Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop. We're able to push large volumes of data to the platform, and that used to be a challenge, especially when storing a terabyte of information. This is the area where Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop improved the organization."
"The main advantage is the storage is less expensive."
"In terms of scalability, if you have enough hardware you can scale out. Scalability doesn't have any issues."
"The speed at which it gets the data is great."
"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."
"Anyone currently using SAP will be transitioning to HANA."
"It's easy to use, and the Hana Studio is pretty good."
"Provides us with predictive capabilities for asset maintenance, and real-time forecasts."
"Some functions have good performance."
"The most value for us was in terms of using it to issue tenders online. We host our server, but it is open to the public, so clients who want to buy those tenders were able to go online, put their tender documents up, and we could evaluate them using SAP."
"The most valuable feature of SAP HANA is the modeling of the databases."
"The solution is not fit for on-premise distributions."
"The tool's ability to be deployed on a cloud model is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution does not support multiple languages very well and this means users need to create work-arounds to implement some solutions."
"Without the big data environment, we cannot store all of this data live. We have billions of records and terabytes of storage to be used. It's not an option actually for us to have a big data environment."
"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there is a lot of things that need to improve."
"The competitors provide better functionalities."
"There are better solutions out there that have more features than this one."
"There are multiple bugs when we update."
"I would have rated the solution higher if this version was not missing some key features the newer version has."
"The documentation can be improved in the future."
"The user interface and CRM need to be more user-friendly."
"It could be a bit more scalable."
"The solution could improve by having better migration flexibility. For example, it would be helpful if there was a way for customers could check their nonproduction and production deployments."
"The performance and integration with other products are areas in need of improvement."
"Needs graphical programming without coding."
"The worst thing about SAP HANA is the price; it's very expensive. The licensing cost, implementation cost, hosting cost, and appliance cost are all high."
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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is ranked 2nd in Hadoop with 47 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 1st in Embedded Database with 79 reviews. Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is rated 8.0, while SAP HANA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop writes "Good end-to-end security features and we like that it's cloud independent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is most compared with Amazon EMR, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, Apache Spark, MongoDB and SQream DB, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Apache Spark. See our Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs. SAP HANA report.
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