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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

    per hour

    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.

    $0.95

    per month Capacity Units

    Pricing
    Oracle DatabaseSAP HANA Cloud
    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 HANA Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Includes a one year free trial.
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle DatabaseSAP HANA Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Database
    Oracle Database is best in business, consistent, and robust. Even the standard version is sufficient for the best performance. The main thing is I have never seen corruption and in my opinion, it is best when used with Linux.
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Database
    Oracle 12c is good for all business applications but still consider Microsoft SQLServer for internal/other applications to save on cost.
    Incentivized
    SAP
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Oracle Database performance was not that up to that mark to analyze data and do analysis. Also Oracle we had to indexing, fragmentation to keep its health good.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    SAP HANA on memory capabilities make it faster than Oracle Database to retrive data.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Really, it is appropriate for any kind of company. For everyone to be successful and make wise business decisions, effective data analytics are essential. Any research analytics firm can benefit greatly from it. It won't be of much use to a modeling agency; instead, a business …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Main features is in memory database. SAP HANA Cloud is specifically good for Accounting and supply chain management.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    SAP HANA surpasses Oracle thanks to its breadth, better usability in my opinion, and is being adopted by an increasing market share of our clients regardless of industry. The enterprise-level of the tool is particularly impactful to handling their large data sets and …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    SAP HANA is the Next-Gen platform or database for real-time analytics and applications. It helps various businesses and organizations to analyze business operations that are based on Big Data (a huge volume of data) in real-time at the speed of lightning, even sub-seconds. It’s …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    SAP HANA as a solution works real good. We chose mainly for real time/streaming analytics and it works well.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Much faster speeds and features that go hand in hand with other SAP tools and products
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Speed and accelerated performance. Streamlined landscape and simplified data management.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    The choice of the SAP HANA solution was mainly determined by the choice of the new company ERP, which having been SAP, naturally led to the choice of its DB solution.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    We found HANA is more flexible than ORACLE in terms of DB management and administration. We also used oracle DB replication for DC DR data syncing and HANA is more convenient and flexible for DR data replication.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    1. In memory functionality.
    2. Data compression using columnar storage functionality.
    3. Performance.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    SAP HANA is better than all the databases, it gives the power and speed to analyze billions of records, access data on cloud, easiest conversion and migration from any database to HANA. Easy to manage and configure.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Similar to other big DBMS, but better or equal at stability and technical maintenance. Better or equal at documentation. There is room for improvement at SQL path analyzing.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    SAP HANA is better integrated with S/4HANA (we did not have any choice). It can only be run using a HANA Database.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    SAP HANA has better agility and data processing capabilities compared to Oracle. It can process a large amount of data in a short amount of time. This saves a lot of time making the process efficient and effective. When it comes to space, the storage management provided by SAP …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    SAP HANA uses the sheer power of in memory analytics based on columnar compression of data in the back-end resulting in an overall decreased footprint of the data resulting in a paradigm shift. The traditional RDBMS database would rely heavily on additional indexes to retrieve …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    SAP HANA. The biggest advantage is its data processing capabilities. You can completely rely on this solution, no matter how big your organization.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    If we did not use SAP HANA, we would have used an Oracle 12c database. We selected HANA since it was recommended for Suite on HANA. So far SAP HANA has proven to be a great fit for our systems that are on Suite on HANA. All future systems we implement will be on SAP HANA.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    24 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    315 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    272 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    321 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    199 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    266 Answers
    Features
    Oracle DatabaseSAP HANA Cloud
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of Oracle Database and SAP HANA Cloud
    Feature
    Oracle Database
    8.3
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SAP HANA Cloud
    9.0
    53 Ratings
    11% above category average
    ACID compliance8.47 Ratings9.439 Ratings
    Database monitoring8.77 Ratings9.251 Ratings
    Database locking8.77 Ratings9.343 Ratings
    Encryption9.06 Ratings8.745 Ratings
    Disaster recovery8.86 Ratings8.843 Ratings
    Flexible deployment6.47 Ratings8.946 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.17 Ratings8.847 Ratings
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    Oracle DatabaseSAP HANA Cloud
    Small Businesses
    Amazon RDS
    Score8 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.2 out of 10
    SAP IQ
    Score5.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle DatabaseSAP HANA Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (199 ratings)
    9.4
    (364 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (13 ratings)
    9.4
    (83 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.4
    (253 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle DatabaseSAP HANA Cloud
    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
    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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    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
    • 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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    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
    • 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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    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
    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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    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
    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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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    so far, we didn't get any outage
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    Performance
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    so far good
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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
    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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    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
    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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    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
    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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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    I don't have visibility in licensing
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    Scalability
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    Limitation of training deliverable by organization
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    Professional Services
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    We are still in process for the first applciaiton
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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
    • 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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