We performed a comparison between SAP Business Warehouse and VMware Tanzu Greenplum 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."Predominantly, our company uses SAP Business Warehouse for reporting purposes across various departments, especially for managers to gain a quick understanding of their current standing and make informed decisions."
"Having the back-end data set with the right information is the best qualification for this solution."
"The warehouse is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the integration with SAP ERP."
"The product is very stable."
"With the technical support, the response has been pretty good from the SAP side."
"Having the integration with the reporting tool which is provided by SAP is great."
"The parallel load features mean that Greenplum is capable of high-volume data loading in parallel to all of the cluster segments, which is really valuable."
"We chose Greenplum because of the architecture in terms of clustering databases and being able to have, or at least utilize the resources that are sitting on a database."
"Pivotal Greenplum's shared-nothing architecture."
"Very fast for query processing."
"It's super easy to deploy and it also supports different languages and analytics."
"The most valuable feature for us is horizontal scaling."
"It works very well with large database queries."
"It's one of the fastest databases in the market. It's easy to use. From a maintenance perspective it's a good product. The segmentation, or architecture of the product is different than other databases such as Oracle. So even in 10 years, the data distribution for such segments will not affect other segments. The query performance of the product, for complex queries, is very good. It has good integration with Hadoop."
"A few things which are missing include the visualization of reports. That's where your costs and licensing become heavy. When it comes to this database compared Microsoft Warehouse, it's an expensive solution."
"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."
"It's a product that is at the end of life so they will not improve it anymore."
"Areas for improvement in SAP Business Warehouse include enhancing scheduling and monitoring tools, as well as improving communication about hidden features to make them more accessible to users."
"It takes more work to get the data, including reporting on that data, because some coding is required, and a significant level of transformation is needed when using SAP Business Warehouse."
"So far, the initial setup process in our company has not been easy enough for us to understand."
"The advanced structuring can be complicated and the interface is not very intuitive."
"There is room for improvement from a technical perspective."
"They need to enhance integration with other Big Data products... to integrate with Big Data platforms, and to open a bi-directional connection between Greenplum and Big Data."
"It will be very useful if we could communicate with other database types from Greenplum (using a database link)."
"If you have a user consuming a huge load of resources, it takes down the entire system."
"Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient."
"Maintenance is time-consuming."
"Initial setup is a little complex. It took around two weeks to deploy."
"One of the disadvantages, not a disadvantage with the product itself, but overall, is the expertise in the marketplace. It's not easy to find a Greenplum administrator in the market, compared to other products such as Oracle."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and the out-of-the-box configuration requires optimization."
SAP Business Warehouse is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 25 reviews while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. SAP Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SAP Business Warehouse writes "Offers powerful analytics and integration capabilities but requires improved upgrade processes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Greenplum writes "Very efficient at large scale analytics; lacks inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases". SAP Business Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, BigQuery, SAP BW4HANA and Amazon Redshift, whereas VMware Tanzu Greenplum is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Vertica, Oracle Database Appliance, Apache Hadoop and Snowflake. See our SAP Business Warehouse vs. VMware Tanzu Greenplum report.
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