Amazon Redshift vs SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse comparison

Amazon Redshift vs. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse

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Amazon Redshift

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Cloud Data Warehouse (5th)

SAP NetWeaver Business Ware...

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

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Data Warehouse (15th)

Featured Reviews

Ved Prakash Yadav

Senior Data Platform Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Works as a data warehouse system and collects data from different sources

In terms of improvement, I believe Amazon Redshift could work on reducing its costs, as they tend to increase significantly. Additionally, there are occasional issues with nodes going down, which can be problematic. We often encounter issues like someone dropping a column or changing the order of columns, which can cause synchronization problems when pushing data through our pipeline. It's a minor issue, but it can be annoying.

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Gebrehiwot Tesfay Gebreslassie

Business Intelligence Senior Developer II at Ethiopian Airlines

Data modeling is a valuable feature but there are some issues with scalability

We are an airline and use the system for data modeling and data warehousing, and we implement it for time performance and feedback analysis. I'm the business intelligence senior developer and we are customers of SAP. The data modeling is very valuable for us. There are performance issues in…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Changing from local servers to the cloud is very easy. It's so nice not to have to worry about physical servers."

"The solution's speed, stability, and user concurrency have been very good."

"Redshift has an advantage when it comes to administration, making it easier to manage and collaborate."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon Redshift is its ability to handle really large sets of data."

"The solution is easy to set up and use."

"I am satisfied with the performance of the product."

"Though Amazon Redshift is good, it depends on what kind of business you're trying to do, what type of analytics you need, and how much data you have."

"The most valuable features of Amazon Redshift are that its fast and efficient. We have lots of TBs of data and it's very fast."

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"A robust and efficient product."

"The security and audit procedures are the most valuable features."

"It's an excellent over-all tool for managers to analyze their business."

"Transformation is a valuable feature of SAP NetWeaver. I can transform the data as per my needs or my client's needs. For example, flat tables can be transformed with respect to our requirements to combine multiple modules into one single table, and we can derive analytics."

"Data modeling is a valuable feature."

"It is a robust system."

"It provides us with proof of data, we can centralize all of the information, check it, and then provide the information to our users."

Cons

"It would be good to see Redshift as a serverless offering."

"Improvement could be made in the area of streaming data."

"Query compilation time needs a lot of improvement for cases where you are generating queries dynamically."

"The product must provide new indexes that support special data structures or data types like TEXT."

"I would like to improve the pricing and the simplicity of using this solution."

"The technical support should be better in terms of their knowledge, and they should be more customer-friendly."

"Migrating data from other data sources can be challenging when you are working with multibyte character sets."

"AWS Snowflake has a very good feature for cloning databases. It makes it easy to clone a data warehouse, which is useful. I would like to see this feature in Redshift."

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"I think more integration with other applications would be perfect."

"The program is difficult to learn to use"

"Connectors are complex, and it is difficult to understand or know which connector should be used. For instance, if I want to connect APIs, I will not be able to do it directly. I would have to go to the portal integration to get the data. Therefore, having simplified connectors will make things much easier."

"It is difficult when your native language is not English. It is difficult for us to explain our issue and also difficult for the technical team to explain a resolution to us."

"There are performance issues in terms of scalability and availability."

"The product could provide more features."

"Design and modeling could be simplified."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"In comparison to the price of similar solutions, Redshift's cost is the lowest."

"For Amazon Redshift, we pay around INR 60,000 annually. The cost factor also depends on the number of existing customers."

"It's pay per use. You can have multiple models."

"My customers have implementations that cost about $500 a month for a very small one. I also have a customer with a monthly invoice of about $25,000 USD."

"The best part about this solution is the cost."

"The cost is comparable to Snowflake."

"The part that I like best is that you only pay for what you are using."

"It's around $200 US dollars. There are some data transfer costs but it's minimal, around $20."

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"All SAP products are expensive."

"Pricing is based on the number of user IDs and tyhe user ID works across a suite of products."

"The licensing cost is high for SAP NetWeaver compared to that for other products."

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Questions from the Community

How does Amazon Redshift compare with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

Amazon Redshift is very fast, has a very good response time, and is very user-friendly. The initial setup is very straightforward. This solution can merge and integrate well with many different dat...

What do you like most about Amazon Redshift?

The tool's most valuable feature is its parallel processing capability. It can handle massive amounts of data, even when pushing hundreds of terabytes, and its scaling capabilities are good.

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

The pricing of Amazon Redshift is expensive.

What do you like most about SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse?

It is a robust system.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse?

All SAP products are expensive.

What needs improvement with SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse?

The product could provide more features. The stability could be improved.

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Overview

Amazon Redshift is a fully administered, petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse service. Users are able to begin with a minimal amount of gigabytes of data and can easily scale up to a petabyte or more as needed. This will enable them to utilize their own data to develop new intuitions on how to improve business processes and client relations.

Initially, users start to develop a data warehouse by initiating what is called an Amazon Redshift cluster or a set of nodes. Once the cluster has been provisioned, users can seamlessly upload data sets, and then begin to perform data analysis queries. Amazon Redshift delivers super-fast query performance, regardless of size, utilizing the exact SQL-based tools and BI applications that most users are already working with today.

The Amazon Redshift service performs all of the work of setting up, operating, and scaling a data warehouse. These tasks include provisioning capacity, monitoring and backing up the cluster, and applying patches and upgrades to the Amazon Redshift engine.

Amazon Redshift Functionalities

Amazon Redshift has many valuable key functionalities. Some of its most useful functionalities include:

Cluster administration: The Amazon Redshift cluster is a group of nodes that contains a leader node and one (or more) compute node(s). The compute nodes needed are dependent on the data size, amount of queries needed, and the query execution functionality desired.
Cluster snapshots: Snapshots are backups of a cluster from an exact point in time. Amazon Redshift offers two types of snapshots: manual and automated. Amazon will store these snapshots internally in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) utilizing an SSL connection. Whenever a Snapshot restore is needed, Amazon Redshift will create a new cluster and will import data from the snapshot as directed.
Cluster access: Amazon Redshift provides several intuitive features to help define connectivity rules, encrypt data and connections, and control the overall access of your cluster.
IAM credentials and AWS accounts: The Amazon Redshift cluster is only accessible by the AWS account that created the cluster. This automatically secures the cluster and keeps it safe. Inside the AWS account, users access the AWS Identity and IAM protocol to create additional user accounts and manage permissions, granting specified users the desired access needed to control cluster performance.
Encryption: Users have the option to choose to encrypt the clusters for additional added security once the cluster is provisioned. When encryption is enabled, Amazon Redshift will store all the data in user-created tables in a secure encrypted format. To manage Amazon Redshift encryption keys, users will access AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

Reviews from Real Users

“Redshift's versioning and data security are the two most critical features. When migrating into the cloud, it's vital to secure the data. The encryption and security are there.” - Kundan A., Senior Consultant at Dynamic Elements AS

“With the cloud version whenever you want to deploy, you can scale up, and down, and it has a data warehousing capability. Redshift has many features. They have enriched and elaborate documentation that is helpful.”- Aishwarya K., Solution Architect at Capgemini

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

With NetWeaver Business Warehouse, you can quickly Capture, store, and consolidate your vital information with our real-time data warehouse platform. Tightly integrate your warehousing capabilities for a single version of the truth, decision-ready business intelligence, and accelerated operations.

SAP

Sample Customers

Liberty Mutual Insurance, 4Cite Marketing, BrandVerity, DNA Plc, Sirocco Systems, Gainsight, Blue 449

EMC Corporation, Takisada-Osaka Co. Ltd., Eldorado, Mozzart, The VELUX Group, AOK Bundesverband, Hilti Group, Nissha Printing Company Ltd., Asian Paints, Aareal Bank Group, Magazine zum Globus (Migros Group)

Amazon Redshift vs. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse