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A quick review of the HANA Platform - both Cloud native and on-prem
May 19, 2023

A quick review of the HANA Platform - both Cloud native and on-prem

Tom Turchioe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

SAP HANA, enterprise edition

Overall Satisfaction with SAP HANA Cloud

Critigen/Locana is a Systems Integrator who are experts in ArcGIS / S4 / ECC integration. We also make Lemur which is an SAP Endorsed app that integrates with SAP Asset Manager.
  • Data Integration
  • Multi-model processing
  • high speed DBMS capable of large data volumes
  • Data virtualization
  • It's not easy to get data out of the HANA platform
  • Tuning in edge cases is difficult
  • Some small missing features have to be worked around
  • perception that it is "expensive" - this is a messaging issue, not a real issue
  • perception that it only runs ERP - SAP is a victim of it's own success in this regard
  • perception that it isn't an industrial strength DBMS when, in fact, it is
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.
For calls to support by our customers, the quality of support has been excellent.

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

It is the ideal place to put an ArcGIS geodatabase especially the utility network. This is due to the data federation and data virtualization capabilities. HANA Cloud's ability to execute queries at scale and speed is very, very good. With respect to HANA Cloud vs. HANA Enterprise (on-prem), the additional connectors provided with HANA Cloud at no additional charge make it straightforward to integrate HANA Cloud into hyperscalar's data meshes - like AWS. In a lot of ways, HANA Cloud is a better value than on-prem because it includes all of the options including SDA/SDI and the connectors