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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MySQL

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMySQL is a popular open-source relational and embedded database, now owned by Oracle.N/A

    SAP Lumira Discovery

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASAP Lumira Discovery is SAP’s data visualization and discovery application. It facilitates data discovery, visualization, and analysis by assisting users with creation of dashboards, infographics, presentations, data facets, tag clouds, and more.

    $185

    per user

    Pricing
    MySQLSAP Lumira Discovery
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    SAP Lumira, standard edition
    $185
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MySQLSAP Lumira Discovery
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    MySQLSAP Lumira Discovery
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    No answer on this topic
    SAP
    Chose SAP Lumira Discovery
    Other products cannot work with existing SAP infrastructure. They cannot leverage the security and trustworthiness of SAP infrastructure. They provide the native connectivity to SAP systems and data warehouses. SAP provides good support for these analytical tools such as Lumira …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    49 Answers
    80%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    51 Answers
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    46 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    MySQLSAP Lumira Discovery
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of MySQL and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    MySQL
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    8.0
    97 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.097 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of MySQL and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    MySQL
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    7.3
    103 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings10.0100 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.0103 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings5.098 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of MySQL and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    MySQL
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    6.1
    95 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.082 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings5.094 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings6.355 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of MySQL and SAP Lumira Discovery
    Feature
    MySQL
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Lumira Discovery
    4.3
    104 Ratings
    60% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings5.0102 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings6.095 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings2.072 Ratings
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    PostgreSQL
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SQLite
    Score8 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MySQLSAP Lumira Discovery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (146 ratings)
    9.0
    (105 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (18 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (12 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.0
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (83 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (89 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MySQLSAP Lumira Discovery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    MySQL is best suited for applications on platform like high-traffic content-driven websites, small-scale web apps, data warehouses which regards light analytical workloads. However its less suited for areas like enterprise data warehouse, OLAP cubes, large-scale reporting, applications requiring flexible or semi-structured data like event logging systems, product configurations, dynamic forms.
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    SAP
    Infographics derived from specific data sources appears to be well suited for development using Lumira. The development of executive level dashboards was less appropriate from my perspective. The software does not provide sufficient demonstration or samples for the users to learn from in my opinion.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Stable - it just runs, with minimal downtime or errors
    • Fast - well-structured data is quickly written and read
    • Secure - MySQL is easy to keep data secure from people and applications that shouldn't see it
    • Easy to use - SQL is industry standard so no problems with adding, editing and reading data stored in MySQL
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    SAP
    • SAP has built in features you would expect from a data visualization package, like easy import from other SAP systems.
    • SAP has most of the typical charts that you would expect in order to visualize your data.
    • SAP allows you to have multiple charts on one visualization for your data.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Learning curve: is big. Newbies will face problems in understanding the platform initially. However, with plenty of online resources, one can easily find solutions to problems and learn on the go.
    • Backup and restore: MySQL is not very seamless. Although the data is never ruptured or missed, the process involved is not very much user-friendly. Maybe, a new command-line interface for only the backup-restore functionality shall be set up again to make this very important step much easier to perform and maintain.
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    SAP
    • Even though the process of creating visualizations of data is now greatly improved, it could still be a lot better as users become accustomed to this kind of tool and bring forward edge cases the developers did not anticipate.
    • It would be awesome to have a cross platform tool that works on more than just Windows.
    • Some options for specific graphs feel limiting.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    For teaching Databases and SQL, I would definitely continue to use MySQL. It provides a good, solid foundation to learn about databases. Also to learn about the SQL language and how it works with the creation, insertion, deletion, updating, and manipulation of data, tables, and databases. This SQL language is a foundation and can be used to learn many other database related concepts.
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    SAP
    Given the scope ,maintanence , support and budget are the main drivers to deciding renewal of a software
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    Usability
    Oracle
    I give MySQL a 9/10 overall because I really like it but I feel like there are a lot of tech people who would hate it if I gave it a 10/10. I've never had any problems with it or reached any of its limitations but I know a few people who have so I can't give it a 10/10 based on those complaints.
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    SAP
    SAP Lumira is very good self service analytical tool with powerful capabilities. However need to look into other SAP products in BI space, like SAP SAC. SAP Lumira is more used for custom and complex analytical need in business intelligence area. Also SAP Lumira is going out of maintenance in coming future replaced by SAP SAC.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Lumira is a desktop application runs in its own JVM. It installs its own java runtime libraries to avoid any core java version conflicts. The availability of the application is completely relies on individual machine hardware configuration. On a decent desktop, it performs well and always launches in either 32 or 64 bit environment based on the hosts system's OS
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    Performance
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The performance is linear with amount of data that is being explored. We have done some benchmarks acquiring 10million data cells without having any performance problems. We need to make proper adjustments to jvm run time properties to start with higher heap size and other parameters that optimizes the run time performance
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    We have never contacted MySQL enterprise support team for any issues related to MySQL. This is because we have been using primarily the MySQL Server community edition and have been using the MySQL support forums for any questions and practical guidance that we needed before and during the technical implementations. Overall, the support community has been very helpful and allowed us to make the most out of the community edition.
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    SAP
    It does not have many bugs or issues since not a lot of new features are being added. The customer support for SAP Lumira Discovery is good and anyone considering this as a self-service tool would be happy. It integrates well in the SAP BI suite of products and the overall experience is positive.
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    In-Person Training
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    We did not take in-person training
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    Online Training
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Most of the user guides are pretty comprehensive and very easy to understand. The product itself is designed to be self-serve tool, did not need much of the end-user training. Most of the training we had is to how to read the data, how to explore the data, how to acquire the data etc.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    1. Estimate your data size. 2. Test, test, and test.
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    SAP
    Installing the desktop software on end-user machines is always challenging. The machine specifications are the biggest factor when running Lumira and be able to handle large datasets during data exploration. This often demands beefy machines at least for power-users. Although Lumira software licensing is not a big problem but managing partner's extensions and keeping track of their individual licenses may be an issue. If there is a way to bundle the more popular extensions such as vSQL or vOLAP should be bundled in core product and offer them as part of Lumira license instead of a separate license which causer operational burden.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    MongoDB has a dynamic schema for how data is stored in 'documents' whereas MySQL is more structured with tables, columns, and rows. MongoDB was built for high availability whereas MySQL can be a challenge when it comes to replication of the data and making everything redundant in the event of a DR or outage.
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    SAP
    Even though SAP Analytics Cloud is considered to be better in aspects such as data connectivity or analytics, we decided to choose Lumira as it was easier to understand, learn and use. As our business is not really that big and does not require the inclusion of large amounts of data, Lumira was overall the safest and most comfortable option. Also, some members in our team had previous knowledge so it was easier to adapt
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    Scalability
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Enterprise wide implementation is a challenge with data security and trustedness. No easy installation can be done across the enterprise. no upgrade paths also available from SAP. They have so much of experience with desktop implementation, there it could be a controlled environment with a capital budget. These may be resolved in the upcoming releases
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • As it is an open source solution through community solution, we can use it in a multitude of projects without cost license
    • The acquisition by Oracle makes you need to contract support for the enterprise version
    • If you have knowledge about oracle databases, you can get more out of the enterprise version
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    SAP
    • We could obtain original data from vast and detailed corporate and personal data sources.
    • We could share visual analysis results with stakeholders via the cloud, and it could also be viewed on a tablet.
    • It is very flexible and accurate to use. It can be used for forecasting sales, resource planning, and scheduling.
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