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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle Database

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AOracle Database, currently in edition 23ai, is a converged, multimodel database management system. It is designed to simplify development for AI, microservices, graph, document, spatial, and relational applications.

    $0.05

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    SAP BW/4HANA

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASAP BW/4HANA is a next-generation data warehouse solution. It is specifically designed to use the advanced in-memory capabilities of the SAP HANA platform. For example, SAP BW/HANA can integrate many different data sources to provide a single, logical view of all the data. This could include data contained in SAP and non-SAP applications running on-premise or in the cloud, and data lakes, such as those contained in the Apache Hadoop open-source software framework. With SAP BW/4HANA,…N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle DatabaseSAP BW/4HANA
    Editions & Modules
    Oracle Base Database Service - Standard
    $0.0538
    per hour
    Oracle Base Database Service - Enterprise
    $0.1075
    per hour
    Oracle Base Database Service - High Performance
    $0.2218
    per hour
    Standard Edition
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    Enterprise Edition
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    Personal Edition
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle DatabaseSAP BW/4HANA
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle DatabaseSAP BW/4HANA
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Database
    Oracle 12c is superior to SQL Server for large mission critical databases and applications. We also used DB2 in the past. We migrated many of our SAP applications from DB2 to Oracle 11.2 several years ago. These applications are now on Oracle 12c.
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    SAP
    Chose SAP BW/4HANA
    we also had oracle based solution for the data lake and it was tedious to build data model with data vaulting concepts. with extended star schema approach in SAP BW/4HANA, it makes the developer life easier to integrate master data attributes and text with the transactional …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
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    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    Oracle DatabaseSAP BW/4HANA
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of Oracle Database and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Database
    8.3
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
    -
    Ratings
    ACID compliance8.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment6.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Oracle Database and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Database
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.2
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Location-Based Data Governance00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Oracle Database and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Database
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.7
    4 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Oracle Database and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Database
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.0
    3 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Visualization00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Data Warehouse
    Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Oracle Database and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    Oracle Database
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANA
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    1% below category average
    High-Volume Data Processing00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Data Warehouse Management00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Administrative Automation00 Ratings7.53 Ratings
    Self-Optimization00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Oracle DatabaseSAP BW/4HANA
    Small Businesses
    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.4 out of 10
    Oracle Exadata
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle DatabaseSAP BW/4HANA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (199 ratings)
    9.7
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (13 ratings)
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle DatabaseSAP BW/4HANA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    We migrated from NoSQL to an Oracle database. One of the reasons was robust backup and recovery options available in the Oracle database, which provide zero data loss. A transactional database like Oracle is a better fit for our use case than NoSQL. On a large scale, deployment was evaluated as a cheaper option than the NoSQL engine. This conclusion came even after considering Oracle license is expensive.
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    SAP
    SAP BW/4HANA is certainly an excellent choice when it comes to setting up a data warehousing platform within a landscape of existing SAP systems ecosystem for realizing quick time to value and ROI over the long term. Many non-SAP analytics tools such as Power BI , Qlik also now offer connectors to leverage SAP BW/4HANA data as additional options to deploy third party visualization tools which make it a more open ended platform of choice. But with the future roadmap of SAP and industry in general being focused towards cloud based offerings (SAC and Datasphere) infused with AI capabilities one has to make a judicious choice among these depending on the use case, capabilities of platforms and existing systems landscape and the overall long term IT strategy. SAP BW/4HANA may not be a good platform of choice if starting a native greenfield data warehousing implementation with cloud first approach which would require data integration across SAP and Non-SAP sources and one should consider other SAP cloud offerings which however still have some time to reach a level of maturity as SAP BW/4HANA has reached over the years.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Supports most of the Operating Systems like Unix, Linux and Windows Server.
    • It works well in high load environment under intense parallel transactions setup.
    • Highly reliable DBMS, especially RAC is very much reliable.
    • Well managed and predictable release of security patches.
    • We have highly scaled it from on-prem to a cloud cluster environment for our product.
    • One of the best-performing DBMSs on Linux machines under test delivers high throughput (QPS).
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    SAP
    • With ODP based extraction, SAP BW/4HANA does well to integrate the data from various source systems like S4HANA , S4C.
    • With composite providers having the ability to integrate HANA calculation views, we are able to make the best of use of both application layer and data base layer(HANA) for mixed modelling scenarios.
    • with data tiering optimization higher data volume are effectively handled as we have the option to control the amount of data that is being stored in HOT , Warm and cold storage. With data volume grows over the year, DTO comes in handy solution to automatically move the delta to appropriate area based on temporature.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • The memory demand and management makes it impossible to run it in a container.
    • It is hard to perform local unit testing with Oracle even using the personal edition (aggressive all the available memory grab for itself).
    • Lack of built in database migrations (e.g. as Flyway).
    • The need to install the Oracle client in addition to its drivers.
    • The cost of running it, especially in the Cloud.
    • Comes with very spartan community grade client/management tools whereas the commercial offerings tend to demand a premium price.
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    SAP
    • Better integration with HANA layer with BW/4HANA application
    • Flexibility to provide more secure API's to interact with non-sap Data bases
    • Integration with Gsheets as well like Excel(AFO) and introduce better reporting integration with various reporting tools.
    • Evolution to provide better data lake , data brick options like in BDC
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    There is a lot of sunk cost in a product like Oracle 12c. It is doing a great job, it would not provide us much benefit to switch to another product even if it did the same thing due to the work involved in making such a switch. It would not be cost effective.
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    SAP
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    Usability
    Oracle
    Many of the powerful options can be auto-configured but there are still many things to take into account at the moment of installing and configuring an Oracle Database, compared with SQL Server or other databases. At the same time, that extra complexity allows for detailed configuration and guarantees performance, scalability, availability and security.
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    SAP
    SAP BW/4HANA requires specialized skillsets around data warehouse modeling and the access to data, however the modeling capabilities are intuitive and have now become accessible to both SAP and non-SAP data warehouse specialists. This new model allows for Interchangeable skillsets and access to a broader pool of experts throughout the industry, as well as easier access to data.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    1. I have very good experience with Oracle Database support team. Oracle support team has pool of talented Oracle Analyst resources in different regions. To name a few regions - EMEA, Asia, USA(EST, MST, PST), Australia. Their support staffs are very supportive, well trained, and customer focused. Whenever I open Oracle Sev1 SR(service request), I always get prompt update on my case timely. 2. Oracle has zoom call and chat session option linked to Oracle SR. Whenever you are in Oracle portal - you can chat with the Oracle Analyst who is working on your case. You can request for Oracle zoom call thru which you can share the your problem server screen in no time. This is very nice as it saves lot of time and energy in case you have to follow up with oracle support for your case. 3.Oracle has excellent knowledge base in which all the customer databases critical problems and their solutions are well documented. It is very easy to follow without consulting to support team at first.
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    SAP
    SAP Max Attention and general support for SAP BW/4HANA is broadly available. Truth to be told, MaxAttention has a premium cost but brings great engineers. So this being an enterprise capability and extremely critical, we did not consider cost as the main factor since support works well. Just keep that in mind when making your selection.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    Overall the implementation went very well and after that everything came out as expected - in terms of performance and scalability. People should always install and upgrade a stable version for production with the latest patch set updates, test properly as much as possible, and should have a backup plan if anything unexpected happens
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    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    Because of a rich user base and support for any critical issue, this is one of the best options to choose. In case the project has a TCO issue, it can compromise and choose Postgres as the best alternative. SQL server is also good and easy to code and maintain but performance is not as good as the Oracle
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    SAP
    SAP BW / 4HANA and SAP IQ are both used for warehouse; with quick consultations for business analysis and that allows us to obtain dashboards and KPIs efficiently. SAP IQ is columnar and SAP BW / 4HANA immemorial. SAP BW / 4HANA was selected for the response speed of the queries since it saves the information in cache.
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • Multiple applications can use the same database and still get high performance
    • Licensing cost is still a concern compared to the other options available in the market that are very very inexpensive
    • Almost a maintenance free database
    • Oracle Grid makes life easy in terms of monitoring and managing the databases
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    SAP
    • SAP BW/4HANA has been immensely helpful in eliminating alternate silos of data creation by business users thereby ensuring data integrity and consistency across the organization. The focus is now more on data analysis as opposed to data preparation in spreadsheets saving users hours of laborious manual work in collating data.
    • We have been able to quickly integrate and leverage data from multiple SAP systems into SAP BW/4HANA to drive holistic decision making within the organization including streamlining the month end close process using BPC.
    • Excel friendly reporting tools such as Analysis for Office have made it much easier for user adoption and training making change management much easier and change the culture within the organization.
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