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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Hadoop

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AHadoop is an open source software from Apache, supporting distributed processing and data storage. Hadoop is popular for its scalability, reliability, and functionality available across commoditized hardware.N/A

    SAP BW

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASAP Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019. SAP BW versions up to 7.4 have reached end of maintenance. SAP BW 7.5 support is extended to align with SAP Business Suite with NetWeaver components. For existing customers maintenance is scheduled to continue through 2027, with extended support available through 2030.N/A
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    HadoopSAP BW
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    HadoopSAP BW
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HadoopSAP BW
    Considered Both Products
    Apache
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    SAP
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    HadoopSAP BW
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Apache Hadoop and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Apache Hadoop
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    9.5
    7 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.47 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.77 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.37 Ratings
    Location-Based Data Governance00 Ratings9.87 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Apache Hadoop and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Apache Hadoop
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    9.3
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.36 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Apache Hadoop and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Apache Hadoop
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    7.7
    7 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Visualization00 Ratings7.77 Ratings
    Data Warehouse
    Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Apache Hadoop and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    Apache Hadoop
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    7% below category average
    High-Volume Data Processing00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Data Warehouse Management00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Administrative Automation00 Ratings7.27 Ratings
    Self-Optimization00 Ratings7.27 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cloudera Manager (no longer available standalone)
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Amazon EMR
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HadoopSAP BW
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (37 ratings)
    8.3
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.7
    (10 ratings)
    -
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    Data Sources
    8.7
    (10 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    HadoopSAP BW
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apache
    Altogether, I want to say that Apache Hadoop is well-suited to a larger and unstructured data flow like an aggregation of web traffic or even advertising. I think Apache Hadoop is great when you literally have petabytes of data that need to be stored and processed on an ongoing basis. Also, I would recommend that the software should be supplemented with a faster and interactive database for a better querying service. Lastly, it's very cost-effective so it is good to give it a shot before coming to any conclusion.
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    SAP
    SAP BW is best for: 1. Large enterprises 2. Enterprises with 3+ legacy systems with entrenched users (politically difficult to merge) 3. Enterprises with employees who can understand both the technical capabilities of SAP BW and the needs of the business users - ability to speak both languages, otherwise the program could be unwieldy and potentially underutilized (it's not particularly inexpensive) SAP BW is less appropriate for: 1. Small enterprises 2. Enterprises who have well established, same location, CRM and UFS - the integration of data analysis will be easier and less expensive with other solutions 3. HANA
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    Pros
    Apache
    • Handles large amounts of unstructured data well, for business level purposes
    • Is a good catchall because of this design, i.e. what does not fit into our vertical tables fits here.
    • Decent for large ETL pipelines and logging free-for-alls because of this, also.
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    SAP
    • It tracks bin locations for parts which can be really helpful.
    • SAP Business Warehouse tells you who has a part checked out so you can find it.
    • It shows current parts shortages so buyers are flagged to get parts on order based on current demand.
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    Cons
    Apache
    • Less organizational support system. Bugs need to be fixed and outside help take a long time to push updates
    • Not for small data sets
    • Data security needs to be ramped up
    • Failure in NameNode has no replication which takes a lot of time to recover
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    SAP
    • Age of software is showing as it struggles with very large data modules, which were not as prevalent in its early years
    • Querying performance at times can be very slow
    • Support and development for BEx has been discontinued or hard to find.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apache
    Hadoop is organization-independent and can be used for various purposes ranging from archiving to reporting and can make use of economic, commodity hardware. There is also a lot of saving in terms of licensing costs - since most of the Hadoop ecosystem is available as open-source and is free
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    SAP
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    Usability
    Apache
    As Hadoop enterprise licensed version is quite fine tuned and easy to use makes it good choice for Hadoop administrators. It’s scalability and integration with Kerberos is good option for authentication and authorisation. installation can be improved. logging can be improved so that it become easier for debugging purposes. parallel processing of data is achieved easily.
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    SAP
    The overall usability is robust. The tool offers lot of native feature to achieve all the data warehousing functions. Starting from data modelling to reporting and authorisation, the tool provided native features for almost all the areas of analytics. Integration of hybrid modelling with hana studio opened the usage of sql functions with the sap analytics
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    Support Rating
    Apache
    It's a great value for what you pay, and most Data Base Administrators (DBAs) can walk in and use it without substantial training. I tend to dabble on the analyst side, so querying the data I need feels like it can take forever, especially on higher traffic days like Monday.
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Apache
    Hadoop is a complex topic and best suited for classrom training. Online training are a waste of time and money.
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    SAP
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apache
    Not used any other product than Hadoop and I don't think our company will switch to any other product, as Hadoop is providing excellent results. Our company is growing rapidly, Hadoop helps to keep up our performance and meet customer expectations. We also use HDFS which provides very high bandwidth to support MapReduce workloads.
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    SAP
    SAP Business Warehouse scores higher in data warehouse functionalities for integration to SAP ERP and other SAP solutions such as SAP CRM, SAP APO, and SAP SRM. Standard SAP data source extractors which are available in SAP ERP can be used immediately for full or delta replication into SAP Business Warehouse. System governance in SAP Business Warehouse is top-notch with change management support for migration between system landscape from the development system to production system.
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    Return on Investment
    Apache
    • There are many advantages of Hadoop as first it has made the management and processing of extremely colossal data very easy and has simplified the lives of so many people including me.
    • Hadoop is quite interesting due to its new and improved features plus innovative functions.
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    SAP
    • Positive - This tool report output is in Excel so it's a good tool if your users are familiar with Excel.
    • Positive: this tool has rich BI content so developing extractors for standard processes from SAP ECC can be done in minutes.
    • Negative: It lacks lot of features which are available in other newer tools today. For ex. - rich charts, rich filtering, exporting capabilities, user interface.
    • Negative: Its not a plug and play tool like Qlikview, Lumira, or Tableau. Even a single report development in this tool takes a lot of time compared to others.
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