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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.

    $0.95

    per month Capacity Units

    Snowflake

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
    Pricing
    SAP HANA CloudSnowflake
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP HANA CloudSnowflake
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    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 CloudSnowflake
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Did not review any other products at the current customer. Earlier we evaluated Snowflake.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Much more integrated with other SAP offerings and very powerful response. Less focused on pro-code scenarios, e.g., using notebooks. Extreme workloads can become expensive and more difficult to scale than the dedicated tools that separate the compute completely from the …
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Sometimes ithersoftware not performed well may be required more updates very often and frequently
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Developer friendly environment and real time data access and processing
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    The reason remains the same , The dataflow between SAP application works seamlessly with SAP HANA cloud . The in memory capability really helps here a lot to make the reports run faster . Where as the other database engines that doesn't have the in-memory capability.
    Incentivized
    Chose SAP HANA Cloud
    Interestingly Workday financials is getting paired with Workday HCM.. Do not find it a comforting approach if one has to have tight integration with logistics operations
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    Snowflake Computing
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    315 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    321 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    30 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    199 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    266 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
    SAP HANA CloudSnowflake
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of SAP HANA Cloud and Snowflake
    Feature
    SAP HANA Cloud
    9.0
    53 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Snowflake
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    Ratings
    ACID compliance9.439 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring9.251 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking9.343 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption8.745 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery8.843 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.946 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.847 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SAP HANA CloudSnowflake
    Small Businesses
    Amazon RDS
    Score8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.1 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAP HANA CloudSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (364 ratings)
    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (83 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (253 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    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 CloudSnowflake
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
    • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
    • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
    • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
    • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
    • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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    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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    Snowflake Computing
    Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    so far, we didn't get any outage
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    Snowflake Computing
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    Performance
    SAP
    so far good
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    Snowflake Computing
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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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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    Snowflake Computing
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    SAP
    I don't have visibility in licensing
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    Snowflake Computing
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    SAP
    Limitation of training deliverable by organization
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    Snowflake Computing
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    Professional Services
    SAP
    We are still in process for the first applciaiton
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    Snowflake Computing
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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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    Snowflake Computing
    • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
    • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
    • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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