We performed a comparison between Exasol 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."The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"The speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"Its speed is great."
"Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"It is easy to scale."
"Some functions have good performance."
"The most valuable feature of SAP HANA is the modeling of the databases."
"The product handles high volumes very well and provides good integration."
"The performance in terms of processing time is unmatched due to the in-memory processing capability."
"What I like best about SAP HANA is that it's faster than Microsoft SQL Server."
"The user interface is very good. You can do any kind of reporting analytics from the platform."
"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."
"SAP HANA is a stable solution."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"SAP HANA is not perfect and they could improve by having more options and more integration."
"SAP HANA is not strong like Oracle when it comes to finance. They are only strong with the logistic business project."
"High availability and disaster recovery are very poor in HANA."
"What needs improvement in SAP HANA is its automation, in particular, it needs more enhancements in that area."
"The initial setup was very, very complex, tedious, and costly and required someone with great expertise to complete it."
"The pricing is expensive."
"It could be a bit more scalable."
"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."
Exasol is ranked 12th in Relational Databases Tools with 8 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 3rd in Relational Databases Tools with 79 reviews. Exasol is rated 8.0, while SAP HANA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Exasol writes "Fast query processing and easy-to-store all the data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". Exasol is most compared with SQL Server, Vertica, Oracle Database In-Memory, MySQL and Oracle Database, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Apache Spark. See our Exasol vs. SAP HANA report.
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