Amazon Redshift vs SAP Business Data Cloud comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAP are both solutions in the Cloud Data Warehouse category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3, while SAP is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 7.0% mindshare in CDW, compared to SAP’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Amazon Redshift

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 15, 2026

Amazon Redshift and SAP Business Data Cloud are strong competitors in the cloud data management and analytics market. Based on feature strengths, Amazon Redshift holds an advantage due to its scalability, performance, and cost-effective structure.

Features: Amazon Redshift stands out with its ability to process petabytes of data efficiently due to its distributed architecture. It integrates seamlessly with AWS features like S3, making data management more accessible. Its pay-as-you-go pricing model adds flexibility for users. SAP Business Data Cloud offers strong analytics tools with a focus on user-oriented predictive analytics, ease-of-use in visualization, and integration capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Amazon Redshift faces challenges such as snapshot restoring issues, limited table restore across clusters, and lengthy vacuum processes. Users desire enhanced OLAP capabilities and dynamic VM file scalability. SAP Business Data Cloud requires improved visualization features, easier integration with non-SAP systems, and more competitive pricing. Users also look for more templates and analytics customization options.

Ease Of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon Redshift provides deployment flexibility across public and private clouds, while SAP Business Data Cloud extends this to hybrid settings. Redshift’s technical support can be expensive without paid plans, whereas SAP's support is proactive but also premium-priced. Both offer extensive user documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon Redshift is noted for its competitive pricing for large-scale use, despite potentially high initial costs. Users report a good ROI typically within a year. SAP Business Data Cloud is seen as costly, impacting its market appeal, though it offers significant value when integrated within the SAP ecosystem. Despite expensive licenses, it provides seamless integration with other SAP products.

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Amazon Redshift vs. SAP Business Data Cloud

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.0

Some entities quickly achieved cost savings and ROI, while others face challenges with optimization and evaluating benefits.

Sentiment score

4.5

SAP Business Data Cloud boosts ROI through time savings, efficiency, improved insights, and reduced manual tasks, enhancing decision-making.

We earned back our investment in Amazon Redshift within the first year.

Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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We have saved a lot on the number of employees, and implementation time for the projects has reduced significantly since we started using the standard features of SAP Business Data Cloud.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

Once the content is available, then it is a faster go-live with lesser cost in implementation, and that would give an ROI.

Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

It will definitely reduce the need for more staff to handle this technology.

reviewer2837877

SAP BDC Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.8

Amazon Redshift support is efficient yet costly, praised for documentation, but phone contact and complex issue resolution face delays.

Sentiment score

6.2

SAP Business Data Cloud support is generally positive, though complex issues need time and improvements in first-level attention.

Whenever we need support, if there is an issue accessing stored data due to regional data center problems, the Amazon team is very helpful and provides optimal solutions quickly.

Pavan Kum

Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati

Documentation that allows anyone with prior knowledge of Redshift or SQL to resolve technical issues.

Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It's costly when you enable support.

RiteshPurbey

Senior Analyst at ESRI INDIA

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I would give the technical support for SAP Business Data Cloud a 10 out of 10.

Sarah Essam

Business Data Lead (Egypt And North Africa) at Reckitt Benckiser

On a scale from 0 to 10, I would rate their support 10 out of 10.

Amarjeet Kamble

Owner at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The technical support is a very well-organized service, with a lot of tools for me as a consultant and for the end user on how to contact SAP support and get issues solved.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.3

Amazon Redshift is highly scalable with flexible cluster adjustments, despite some challenges at larger scales and heavy loads.

Sentiment score

7.2

SAP Business Data Cloud excels in scalability and integration, efficiently managing growth and supporting various platform connections.

The scalability part needs improvement as the sizing requires trial and error.

PraveenJagadeesan

Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees

We have successfully increased our storage space, which was a smooth process without server crashes before or after scaling.

Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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The scalability of SAP Business Data Cloud has been strong, as it has handled growth in data volume, user demand, and reporting requirements without significant performance issues.

Niyajuddin Tiwale

Technique at Digitaltrack

SAP Analytics Cloud can be used by a small company, and it can be used by a large corporate.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

Since SAP has consolidated everything on one platform, there is ample room to expand as much as needed.

Muhammad Ashar

Sap Data & Analytics Consultant at Dezert Innovation Technology Company

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.3

Opinions on Amazon Redshift's stability vary, with some praising reliability and others noting issues in large clusters or maintenance.

Sentiment score

7.5

SAP Business Data Cloud is seen as stable and reliable despite occasional performance issues, especially with large datasets.

Amazon Redshift is a stable product, and I would rate it nine or ten out of ten for stability.

PraveenJagadeesan

Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees

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You have a chance to test it on your test tenant in small increments, so it should not break your productive reports and productive environment.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

It has been reliable for reporting, analytics, and data integration activities.

mithun jadhav

Network security engineer at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees

This really allowed virtual access to data, which means there was no heavy replication of data involved, greatly improving performance.

Yagya Purush

Associate Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

Amazon Redshift users face challenges with performance, integration, cost, and features, preferring improved solutions like Snowflake's offerings.

SAP Business Data Cloud users seek improved customization, analytics, integration, cost reduction, onboarding, automation, and enhanced transition from legacy systems.

They should bring the entire ETL data management process into Amazon Redshift.

PraveenJagadeesan

Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees

Integration with AI could be a good improvement.

Pavan Kum

Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati

Integration with AI features could elevate its capabilities and popularity.

Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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On the other hand, it is perfectly fitting to the SAP environment, with seamless integration to all SAP modules, not only ERP but also SuccessFactors and other tools from the SAP family.

Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

If SAP can come up with innovative options to reduce licensing costs, many customers would incline toward SAP Business Data Cloud.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

If I compare the cost with SAP competitors, I find that when creating an enterprise data lake, if I don't use SAP Business Data Cloud and make it directly in the hyperscalers, it is pretty much cheaper than doing the same in SAP Business Data Cloud.

Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

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Setup Cost

Amazon Redshift offers mid-to-high pricing, seen as reasonable due to its scalability and potential cost-effectiveness compared to competitors.

SAP Business Data Cloud pricing is high but justified by features, though users find it expensive compared to competitors.

The cost of technical support is high.

RiteshPurbey

Senior Analyst at ESRI INDIA

It's a pretty good price and reasonable for the product quality.

PraveenJagadeesan

Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees

The pricing of Amazon Redshift is expensive.

reviewer1099677

Co-Founder, Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

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Nitesh Agrawal

Director & Co Owner at INFRABEAT TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD

From a planning license perspective, SAC on that side is very expensive if you need developer features.

Norman Ruppert

Director Of Analytics at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees

SAP Business Data Cloud is at a disadvantage when compared to tools like Talend or Informatica, which are cheaper and more capable.

reviewer2860185

Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Valuable Features

Amazon Redshift offers scalability, fast queries, AWS integration, flexibility, security, cost-effectiveness, easy setup, and compatibility for complex data management.

SAP Business Data Cloud offers seamless integration, real-time analytics, AI support, and centralized data management for enhanced productivity and decision-making.

Amazon Redshift's performance optimization and scalability are quite helpful, providing functionalities such as scaling up and down.

PraveenJagadeesan

Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is also a strong point; I can scale it however I want without any limitations.

reviewer1099677

Co-Founder, Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

The specific features of Amazon Redshift that are beneficial for handling large data sets include fast retrieval due to cloud services and scalability, which allows us to retrieve data quickly.

Pavan Kum

Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati

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For SuccessFactors and S/4HANA Cloud, there are pre-built reports available which are commonly used by customers.

Bhupesh Akkineni

Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

SAP Business Data Cloud has positively impacted my organization by federating SAP data, which is now available for all to use.

Ninad Mehta

Associate director, SAP technical at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The main standout feature is BDC Connect, as it is very useful for sharing data without replicating to third-party tools such as Enterprise Databricks, Snowflake or even in the near future, Google BigQuery as well as Microsoft Fabric.

reviewer2827314

Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Redshift

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

9th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Warehouse (6th), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (8th)

SAP Business Data Cloud

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

115

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (7th), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (3rd), Business Performance Management (2nd), Cloud Analytics (2nd), Predictive Analytics (2nd), Data Governance (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Amazon Redshift is 7.0%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Business Data Cloud is 3.3%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP Business Data Cloud	3.3%
Amazon Redshift	7.0%
Other	89.7%

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Featured Reviews

Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Optimized restaurant analytics has driven faster insights and streamlined daily reporting

Amazon Redshift offers massive parallel processing capability, allowing it to handle millions of records, along with integration with other AWS features such as S3 and QuickSight. The column-level storage supports high performance and easy data retrieval compared to other tools. The integration with S3 has helped my team immensely since S3 is our starting source, and the direct integration with Amazon Redshift simplifies the transformation and loading process. Columnar storage has benefited our performance significantly, allowing us to extract specific rows from tables with years of data much faster than other tools with row-level storage. Amazon Redshift has positively impacted our organization by significantly improving query performance and speed. Features such as easy integration with S3 allow us to process millions of records efficiently, ultimately saving us nearly one hour per day for our project.

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Pavlina Pankova

Competence Leader - BI at Sabris CZ s.r.o.

Brings reporting, planning, and prediction together in one seamless workflow

I think the areas of SAP Analytics Cloud that could be improved or enhanced are mentioned by users or companies, and they would definitely mention the price in terms of planning licensing. From a consulting point of view, I don't see any major weaknesses. It is reasonably well-developed, and the perfect strength is that innovations are coming on a quarterly basis. It is slightly behind other tools in terms of the number of graphical outputs. Some tools have it faster, but every increment of innovations contains new features. On the other hand, it is perfectly fitting to the SAP environment, with seamless integration to all SAP modules, not only ERP but also SuccessFactors and other tools from the SAP family, for example, integrated business planning for the production planning. This is really a highlight compared to other tools.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

14%

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Retailer

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	27
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	29

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Small Business	42
Midsize Enterprise	23
Large Enterprise	69

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Redshift?

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What needs improvement with Amazon Redshift?

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Overview

Amazon Redshift is a dynamic data warehousing and analytics platform offering scalability and seamless AWS integration for high-performance query processing and diverse data management.

Amazon Redshift provides robust data integration capabilities with AWS services like S3 and QuickSight, enabling efficient data warehousing and analytics. It is known for fast query performance due to its columnar storage and can handle diverse file formats. With a user-friendly SQL interface, Redshift supports data compression and offers a strong cost-performance ratio. Its secure VPC configurations and compatibility with data science tools enhance its functionality, although there is room for improving snapshot restoration, dynamic scaling, and processing large datasets.

What are the key features of Amazon Redshift?

Scalability: Allows growth with business needs, accommodating increasing data volumes.
Massive Parallel Processing: Speeds up query performance through parallel data processing.
Seamless AWS Integration: Connects smoothly with services like S3 and QuickSight for enhanced functionality.
Columnar Storage: Enhances query performance by storing data in columns.
User-friendly SQL Interface: Simplifies data query and manipulation.
Data Compression: Efficiently compresses data to reduce storage costs.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Cost-Performance Ratio: Offers competitive pricing with high processing efficiency.
Fast Query Performance: Delivers quick data retrieval and processing speeds.
Security Features: Ensures data security through VPC configurations.
Integration Flexibility: Easily integrates with data science tools and BI platforms.

In industries, Amazon Redshift is essential for managing extensive datasets for business intelligence, operational insights, and reporting. It supports data integration from ERPs and S3, handles SQL queries for comprehensive analysis, and facilitates data storage and transformation. Companies use it for predictive modeling and connect with BI tools like Tableau and Power BI to derive actionable insights.

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SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) is a unified, intelligent data platform — part of the SAP Business AI Platform — that governs SAP and third-party data through a business data fabric. As an evolution of our industry-leading data, analytics and planning solutions, Business Data Cloud brings together Datasphere, Analytics Cloud, and Business Warehouse with a unified experience that delivers transformational insights across all lines of business. By harmonizing mission-critical data with the business processes and logic that give it meaning, SAP BDC delivers a trusted foundation for analytics and AI, empowering data teams and business leaders to make faster, more confident decisions.

What are the most important features of SAP Business Data Cloud?

Unified Data Connectivity: Native integration with SAP applications and third-party sources, eliminating data silos
Business-ready data products: Fully managed SAP data products across all business processes, providing immediate access to high-quality, trusted data
Semantic Data Modeling: A business semantic layer ensures data is translated into consistent, business context across the enterprise
End-to-End Data Governance: Built-in lineage tracking, data quality management, access controls, and compliance support
AI-Assisted Analytics and Planning: Go from insights to action instantly with planning and analytics together in one solution
Open Data Architecture: Enable secure and seamless, zero-copy sharing of semantically rich SAP data into existing data platform environments

What benefits or ROI should users look for in SAP Business Data Cloud?

Accelerated Time to Insight: Less time cleaning and validating data means more time analyzing and acting
Reduced Data Management Costs: One platform replaces multiple point solutions, lowering licensing and IT overhead
Improved Data Trust and Quality: Embedded governance reduces the risk of decisions made on inaccurate or inconsistent data
Faster Compliance and Auditability: Built-in lineage and access controls streamline regulatory reporting and audit preparation
Enhanced Business Agility: Real-time data and self-service analytics help teams respond quickly without relying on IT
Maximized SAP Investment Value: Makes existing SAP transactional data fully accessible and analytics-ready
AI Readiness: A clean, governed data foundation accelerates confident AI and ML adoption across the business

SAP Business Data Cloud is a key component of SAP's vision for the autonomous enterprise. By unifying data connectivity, governance, semantic modeling, and analytics in a single cloud-native platform, SAP BDC eliminates fragmentation and complexity — serving as the connective tissue that ties your entire enterprise together and positioning organizations for long-term success in an AI-driven world.

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