SAP HANA - Powerful and Reliable DBMS
Updated January 30, 2021
SAP HANA - Powerful and Reliable DBMS

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
SAP HANA, standard edition
Overall Satisfaction with SAP HANA
SAP HANA is being used as a relational database management system to store and extract data as and when needed by the applications. The SAP HANA standard edition provides services related to database, application and integration, series data, dynamic tiering, and more additional features. It address the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics through advanced analytics (streaming analytics option, spatial/graph option, search/text option, predictive option).
Pros
- Multi Store Tables - allowing to store data in default store and extended store as per data ageing.
- In Production Environment it allows same host deployments (Hana host + Dynamic Tiering). No need to have separate dedicated server for each of them.
- Incremental and differential backups - Reducing backup times and storage requirements.
Cons
- Implementing SRS patches incurs significant cost to upgrade the existing system.
- It runs only in Linux Environment. Does not compatible in other OS.
- The older version gets outdated more often due to frequent SPS updates and releasing enhanced SAP HANA’s versions.
- Minimal Maintenance Cost (Cost Effective)
- Minimal Development activities (Cost Savings)
- Data Protection providing Customer Satisfaction
It has been highly beneficial for our client in terms of business and critical decision making situations. It offers wide range of advanced real-time analytics which has significantly improved the business model of our client.
Service related to Data Privacy Option has the capability to provide enhanced protection of sensitive and confidential data of our client.
Service related to Data Privacy Option has the capability to provide enhanced protection of sensitive and confidential data of our client.
SAP Hana provides support for relational tables, spatial and graph. The set of capabilities got enriched by introducing JSON document store. It has resulted the applications running on SAP Hana to use the best from each database technology. As a result it has shown advantages on using a flexible and dynamic kind of storing data and the availability of using both database technologies at the same time.
It has reduced administration complexity as maintenance for only one database is needed.
It has reduced administration complexity as maintenance for only one database is needed.
The capability of SAP Hana to simplify embedding of complex business logic that can be run in the database to avoid unnecessary data movement, proved really beneficial and added value to business. In many critical business situations, it has served the purpose and solved the problems in an efficient and effective manner.
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server
Do you think SAP HANA Cloud delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with SAP HANA Cloud's feature set?
Yes
Did SAP HANA Cloud live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of SAP HANA Cloud go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy SAP HANA Cloud again?
Yes
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