We performed a comparison between SAP BW4HANA and Vertica 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."SAP BW4HANA aids in managing data from ER to front-end analysis, contributes to ROI, and fosters business growth understanding. I like that the solution breaks down components to a very granular level, allowing for customization and implementation based on specific requirements. The solution is stable. The solution is scalable."
"The product has efficient performance."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that the infrastructure is easy to understand."
"I like the reporting features of the solution."
"We like that it is an SAP product, so we can easily connect with the SAP ERP system."
"The ability to instantly pull data is the most valuable feature."
"Provides a great analytics engine with all the capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"The fast columnar store database structure allows our query times to be at least 10x faster than on any other database."
"Bulk loads, batch loads, and micro-batch loads have made it possible for our organization to process near real-time ingestions and faster analytics."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good."
"The extensibility and efficiency provided by their C++ SDK."
"Its projections and encoding are excellent tools for tuning large volumes."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the unmatchable database performance."
"The solution is not scalable. It does not have a data streaming feature as well."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
"The licensing cost could be made better."
"In the next release, I would like to see their BI component introduced with a mobile version, as it is not currently present."
"Price wise, this solution is on the higher side."
"The tool is not easy to use for an end user."
"The tool is not cloud-compatible."
"If I want to have good reporting, then I have to buy a separate license."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"Vertica offers a platform-as-a-service version, but their software-as-a-service solution is only available on AWS. They need to get a SaaS version on Azure and GCP as fast as possible."
"The integration with AI has room for improvement."
"Vertica's native cloud support could be improved, and its installation could be made easier."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"There are a lot of limitations within this product and it makes things extremely hard for developers. It lacks Stored Procedure, packages, and triggers like other RDBMs."
"The biggest problem is the cost of cloud deployment."
SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and Oracle Database Appliance, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. Vertica report.
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