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    MariaDB MaxScale

    Score8 out of 10
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    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Business Warehouse, or SAP BW (formerly SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse) is SAP's legacy data warehouse solution, now superseded by SAP BW/4HANA, and the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud which was launched in 2019.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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    MariaDB MaxScaleSAP BW
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    MariaDB MaxScaleSAP BW
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of MariaDB MaxScale and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    MariaDB MaxScale
    -
    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 MariaDB MaxScale and SAP Business Warehouse
    Feature
    MariaDB MaxScale
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    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 MariaDB MaxScale and SAP Business Warehouse
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    MariaDB MaxScale
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    Ratings
    SAP Business Warehouse
    7.6
    7 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Visualization00 Ratings7.67 Ratings
    Data Warehouse
    Comparison of Data Warehouse features of MariaDB MaxScale and SAP Business Warehouse
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    MariaDB MaxScale
    -
    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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    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Oracle Exadata
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MariaDB MaxScaleSAP BW
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
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    Support Rating
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    MariaDB MaxScaleSAP BW
    Likelihood to Recommend
    MariaDB
    If you have a cluster of nodes with MariaDB MaxScale and you want all the
    nodes of the cluster to have a similar load and not to be be
    penalized for queries or writes to the database, you can mount the MaxScale product in front of the MariaDB cluster. MaxScale will balance the requests based on what is being sent to each
    node to have an equitable load and will cache the queries that it
    sends to each one. This optimizes the response time to
    database queries and spreads the load out among all nodes in a
    similar way.
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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
    MariaDB
    • Open source proxy server
    • Great performance
    • Offers load balancing
    • Modular architecture
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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
    MariaDB
    • Improve balancing based on SQL queries
    • Improve swap memory consumption
    • It has a slight delay
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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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    Usability
    MariaDB
    MariaDB MaxScale is a powerful tool and easy to use. It has helped us a lot to improve the performance of our database queries. It implements a security layer that acts as a firewall for the databases, masks the data, or limits the results of the queries. It also integrates easily with Kafka.
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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
    MariaDB
    We have launched several inquiries to MariaDB MaxScale support, and they have always responded very quickly. They also want to hold frequent meetings with the client to get their opinion understand how they can help. I see a very human support that is concerned about the customer.
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    SAP
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    Alternatives Considered
    MariaDB
    ProxySLQ allows many simultaneous connections and allows the cache of queries in memory but it does not have high availability or scalability natively, only through external tools. HAProxy is not able to perform load balancing in an optimal way.
    Instead, MariaDB MaxScale allows high availability, scalability, and data replication to external systems such as Kafka. In addition, MaxScale has a monitor that allows you to see the status of the set of databases.
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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
    MariaDB
    • Reduce the number of database nodes
    • Improve the performance of the applications that use the databases
    • A new layer is added in the service architecture
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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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