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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SAP HANA Cloud

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASAP HANA is an application that uses in-memory database technology to process very large amounts of real-time data from relational databases, both SAP and non-SAP, in a very short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk which means that the data can be accessed in real time by the applications using HANA. The product is sold both as an appliance and as a cloud-based software solution.

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    Vertica Analytics Database

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AThe Vertica Analytics Platform supplies enterprise data warehouses with big data analytics capabilities and modernization. Vertica was acquired and supported by OpenText, then sold to Rocket Software in 2026.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP HANA CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP HANA CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIncludes a one year free trial.
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    Community Pulse
    SAP HANA CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    We prefer SAP HANA because it has real-time reporting and is development friendly.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    I have used Teradata which is a row-level storage database. It was slow in reporting data from the table. Then we moved to HP Vertica which was a columnar storage but it doesn't support procedure. Now we are using SAP HANA, which is excellent as it has in-memory data storage …
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    Rocket Software
    Chose Vertica Analytics Database
    SAP HANA, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL are too heavyweight for achieving real-time latency requirements. Google BigQuery is limited to Cloud that makes hard to integrate with a large ingestion pipeline that may have both Cloud-based and on-prem components. Hadoop is much more …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    319 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    198 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SAP HANA CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of SAP HANA Cloud and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    9.0
    51 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    ACID compliance9.437 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring9.249 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking9.341 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption8.743 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery8.842 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.944 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.845 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SAP HANA CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (362 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.5
    (81 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.6
    (253 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    SAP HANA CloudVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    I think if you have a large organization, it's probably the product and the marketplace to go to. We're a large management consulting firm operating in four to seven countries. And generally speaking, I think that's the size and the scope where it scales best. I can't speak to smaller companies, but I can't see smaller companies leveraging the benefits as much as a larger organization can.
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    Rocket Software
    Vertica as a data warehouse to deliver analytics in-house and even to your client base on scale is not rivaled anywhere in the market. Frankly, in my experience it is not even close to equaled. Because it is such a powerful data warehouse, some people attempt to use it as a transactional database. It certainly is not one of those. Individual row inserts are slow and do not perform well. Deletes are a whole other story. RDBMS it is definitely not. OLAP it rocks.
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    Pros
    SAP
    • Real-time reporting and analytics on data: because of its in-memory architecture, it is perfect for businesses that need to make quick decisions based on current information.
    • Managing workload with complex data: it can handle a vast range of data types, including relational, documental, geospatial, graph, vector, and time series data.
    • Developing and deploying intelligent data applications: it provides various tools for such applications and can be used for machine learning and artificial intelligence to automate tasks, gain insights from data, and make predictions.
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    Rocket Software
    • Extremely fast query performance - Vertica is one of the fastest query engines out there.
    • Scales to TBs - Scales reasonably well up to 10-20 nodes and 10 - 100s of TB of data.
    • Easy to Use - Fairly easy to user, we made quite some headway with just 1 person running it for a while.
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    Cons
    SAP
    • Requires higher processing power, otherwise it won't fly. How ever computing costs are lower. Incase you are migrating to cloud please do not select the highest config available in that series . Upgrading it later against a reserved instance can cost you dearly with a series change
    • Lack of clarity on licensing is one major challenge
    • Unless S/4 with additional features are enabled mere migration HANA DB is not a rewarding journey. Power is in S/4
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    Rocket Software
    • Could use some work on better integrating with cloud providers and open source technologies. For AWS you will find an AMI in the marketplace and recently a connector for loading data from S3 directly was created. With last release, integration with Kafka was added that can help.
    • Managing large workloads (concurrent queries) is a bit challenging.
    • Having a way to provide an estimate on the duration for currently executing queries / etc. can be helpful. Vertica provides some counters for the query execution engine that are helpful but some may find confusing.
    • Unloading data over JDBC is very slow. We've had to come up with alternatives based on vsql, etc. Not a very clean, official on how to unload data.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    We would rate our likelihood of renewing at 9/10. SAP HANA Cloud has proven to be a highly reliable and scalable data platform that consistently delivers strong performance. Its seamless integration with our overall SAP landscape, combined with improved analytics and real-time data capabilities, makes it a core part of our long-term technology strategy.
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    Rocket Software
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    SAP
    It is very useful solution which provides you speedier data processing, real-time analytics. It helps you manage diverse data types. It also offers you excellent disaster management. It has user friendly interface which helps you navigate system and transactions easily and perform task smoothly.
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    Rocket Software
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    so far, we didn't get any outage
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    Rocket Software
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    Performance
    SAP
    so far good
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    Rocket Software
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    Support Rating
    SAP
    However, I am not the right person to answer this as we have another department to handle support and contact the service provider for any support required. Although i will say that they are the quick respondent and knows how to handle querry of the customers and provide quick and better support.
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    Rocket Software
    I haven't had any recent opportunity to reach out to Vertica support. From what I remember, I believe whenever I reached out to them the experience was smooth.
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    Implementation Rating
    SAP
    Professional GIS people are some of the most risk-averse there are, and it's difficult to get them to move to HANA in one step. Start with small projects building to 80% use of HANA spatial over time.
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    Rocket Software
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    Alternatives Considered
    SAP
    I have deep knowledge of other disk based DBMSs. They are venerable technology, but the attempts to extend them to current architectures belie the fact they are built on 40 year old technology. There are some good columnar in-memory databases but they lack the completeness of capability present in the HANA platform.
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    Rocket Software
    Vertica performs well when the query has good stats and is tuned well. Options for GUI clients are ugly and outdated. IO optimized: it's a columnar store with no indexing structures to maintain like traditional databases. The indexing is achieved by storing the data sorted on disk, which itself is run transparently as a background process.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    SAP
    I don't have visibility in licensing
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    Rocket Software
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    SAP
    Limitation of training deliverable by organization
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    Rocket Software
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    SAP
    We are still in process for the first applciaiton
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    Rocket Software
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    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • ROI has always been high in terms of the functionality that it offers and the security features it comes with.
    • Managing large volumes of data in real-time is not an easy task, but it does it pretty well with faster data processing.
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    Rocket Software
    • Positive impact on ROI by being able to get customer insights in real-time.
    • Positive ROI through reduced time to set-up and maintain Vertica instances.
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