We performed a comparison between Hortonworks Data Platform 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."Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"The upgrades and patches must come from Hortonworks."
"Ambari Web UI: user-friendly."
"The scalability is the key reason why we are on this platform."
"The Hortonworks solution is so stable. It is working as a production system, without any error, without any downtime. If I have downtime, it is mostly caused by the hardware of the computers."
"Distributed computing, secure containerization, and governance capabilities are the most valuable features."
"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"We use it for data science activities."
"The best feature of SAP HANA is column computing. The computing speed of the solution is also very high, so developers can easily develop programs through SAP HANA."
"It's very convenient and very innovative."
"It is very flexible to integrate with SaaS components."
"We've had good experiences with technical support."
"The UX experience is very good."
"As I only worked part-time on SAP HANA, I did not have the opportunity to explore the advanced features of the solution. However, I did work with basic features, such as user administration and access controls for the accounting department. The feature that stood out to me the most was the Single Sign-On and user administration, backup, and server management. My experience with SAP HANA was mainly focused on basic server improvements."
"The feature I found most valuable in SAP HANA is modeling. I also like that the solution has good integration and you can integrate it with any system, even third-party systems."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"I would like to see more support for containers such as Docker and OpenShift."
"I work a lot with banking, IT and communications customers. Hortonworks must improve or must upgrade their services for these sectors."
"Since Cloudera acquired HDP, it's been bundled with CBH and HDP. However, the biggest challenge is cloud storage integration with Azure, GCP, and AWS."
"Hive performance. If Hive performance increased, Hadoop would replace (not everywhere) traditional databases."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"The version control of the software is also an issue."
"It's at end of life and no longer will there be improvements."
"Ease of use could be improved in SAP HANA. I like SAP because SAP solutions can be used by anyone, which means even laymen can start working on SAP tools, but in SAP HANA modeling, you'll need to know some other technologies and sequel scripting, and you need a separate skillset, so if you don't have the skillset, you won't be able to work on SAP HANA. Making SAP HANA low-code would make it even better."
"I would like to see improvements in the connectivity of the solution with other BI software. Not every software can connect to it natively."
"It could be a bit more scalable."
"The SAP HANA interface has room for improvement because it takes more work to manage than the Microsoft SQL Server interface."
"Technical support could be better."
"The initial setup was very, very complex, tedious, and costly and required someone with great expertise to complete it."
"The pricing is expensive."
"The inclusion of a well-performing Time Machine is vital."
Hortonworks Data Platform is ranked 6th in Hadoop with 25 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 1st in Embedded Database with 79 reviews. Hortonworks Data Platform is rated 8.0, while SAP HANA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hortonworks Data Platform writes "Good for secure containerization, and governance capabilities ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". Hortonworks Data Platform is most compared with Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, Cloudera DataFlow and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Apache Spark. See our Hortonworks Data Platform vs. SAP HANA report.
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