Azure Data Factory vs SAP Replication Server comparison

Microsoft and SAP are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.2, while SAP is ranked #35 with an average rating of 8.5. Microsoft holds a 5.2% mindshare in DI, compared to SAP’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Azure Data Factory

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92% willing to recommend

SAP Replication Server

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

SAP Replication Server and Azure Data Factory compete in the data management category. Azure Data Factory holds the advantage due to its advanced features and cost-effectiveness.

Features: SAP Replication Server is known for real-time data replication, high availability, and cross-database replication. Azure Data Factory supports broad integration capabilities, offers a user-friendly interface, and includes built-in connectors for over 100 data sources.

Room for Improvement: SAP Replication Server needs improvements in cloud integration, user interface modernization, and scalability options for cloud environments. Azure Data Factory could enhance its monitoring capabilities, streamline its debugging features, and improve flexibility in complex scenarios.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP Replication Server provides robust deployment for on-premise settings with specialized assistance. Azure Data Factory simplifies cloud deployment with extensive Azure cloud platform documentation and strong community support.

Pricing and ROI: SAP Replication Server involves high initial setup costs, fitting enterprises with significant replication needs and ensuring good ROI in those cases. Azure Data Factory's flexible and scalable pricing models offer a higher perceived ROI due to lower initial investments.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Data Factory

Ranking in Data Integration

1st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Warehouse (2nd)

SAP Replication Server

Ranking in Data Integration

35th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Azure Data Factory is 5.2%, down from 11.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Replication Server is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Azure Data Factory	5.2%
SAP Replication Server	0.6%
Other	94.2%

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KandaswamyMuthukrishnan

Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Integrates diverse data sources and streamlines ETL processes effectively

Regarding potential areas of improvement for Azure Data Factory, there is a need for better data transformation, especially since many people are now depending on DataBricks more for connectivity and data integration. Azure Data Factory should consider how to enhance integration or filtering for more transformations, such as integrating with Spark clusters. I am satisfied with Azure Data Factory so far, but I suggest integrating some AI functionality to analyze data during the transition itself, providing insights such as null records, common records, and duplicates without running a separate pipeline or job. The monitoring tools in Azure Data Factory are helpful for optimizing data pipelines; while the current feature is adequate, they can improve by creating a live dashboard to see the online process, including how much percentage has been completed, which will be very helpful for people who are monitoring the pipeline.

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Imran Rafi

SAP HXM & Integration consultant at Kaar Technologies

Foolproof stability and robust system

SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience. One of its notable features is real-time replication, which ensures that data changes are replicated immediately. This is particularly advantageous when we need to execute full processes promptly.

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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

"UI is easy to navigate and I can retrieve VTL code without knowing in-depth coding languages."

"It's extremely consistent."

"The best part of this product is the extraction, transformation, and load."

"It is easy to integrate."

"One advantage of Azure Data Factory is that it's fast, unlike SSIS and other on-premise tools. It's also very convenient because it has multiple connectors. The availability of native connectors allows you to connect to several resources to analyze data streams."

"The two most valuable features of Azure Data Factory are that it's very scalable and that it's also highly reliable."

"The user interface is very good. It makes me feel very comfortable when I am using the tool."

"This solution will allow the organisation to improve its existing data offerings over time by adding predictive analytics, data sharing via APIs and other enhancements readily."

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"SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy."

"We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done."

"It speeds up the performance in terms of how fast you are able to access the data, look at it, get it reported to you, and send it to somebody. It also reduces the amount of storage."

"SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience."

"It's pretty good at handling replication, even under high load. It also provides cross-database replication, for example, from Sybase to Oracle."

Cons

"The initial setup is not very straightforward."

"There are limitations when processing more than one GD file."

"Data Factory's monitorability could be better."

"You cannot use a custom data delimiter, which means that you have problems receiving data in certain formats."

"Currently, our company requires a monitoring tool, and that isn't available in Azure Data Factory."

"Sometimes, the compute fails to process data if there is a heavy load suddenly, and it doesn't scale up automatically."

"User-friendliness and user effectiveness are unquestionably important, and it may be a good option here to improve the user experience. However, I believe that more and more sophisticated monitoring would be beneficial."

"The performance could be better. It would be better if Azure Data Factory could handle a higher load. I have heard that it can get overloaded, and it can't handle it."

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"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support."

"If someone wants to replicate their data from Sybase to a newer technology for data warehousing or other purposes, it would be better if they supported those."

"The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades."

"I would like to see it become mobile-friendly."

"Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For our use case, it is not expensive. We take into the picture everything: resources, learning curve, and maintenance."

"The cost is based on the amount of data sets that we are ingesting."

"The licensing model for Azure Data Factory is good because you won't have to overpay. Pricing-wise, the solution is a five out of ten. It was not expensive, and it was not cheap."

"The solution's fees are based on a pay-per-minute use plus the amount of data required to process."

"My company is on a monthly subscription for Azure Data Factory, but it's more of a pay-as-you-go model where your monthly invoice depends on how many resources you use. On a scale of one to five, pricing for Azure Data Factory is a four. It's just the usage fees my company pays monthly."

"The licensing cost is included in the Synapse."

"It seems very low initially, but as the data grows, the solution’s bills grow exponentially."

"This is a cost-effective solution."

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"It's a very expensive solution."

"You can pick one of the hosted cloud services as opposed to owning it and doing it yourself. Your cost of ownership on the hardware, the data storage, and the maintenance all go down. It depends on what service you use."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

13%

Retailer

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	31
Midsize Enterprise	19
Large Enterprise	55

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

How do you select the right cloud ETL tool?

AWS Glue and Azure Data factory for ELT best performance cloud services.

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How does Azure Data Factory compare with Informatica PowerCenter?

Azure Data Factory is flexible, modular, and works well. In terms of cost, it is not too pricey. It offers the stability and reliability I am looking for, good scalability, and is easy to set up an...

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How does Azure Data Factory compare with Informatica Cloud Data Integration?

Azure Data Factory is a solid product offering many transformation functions; It has pre-load and post-load transformations, allowing users to apply transformations either in code by using Power Q...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Replication Server?

It's a pretty good product and stable.

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What needs improvement with SAP Replication Server?

SAP can provide better support for cross-database replication to newer technologies. The product supports Oracle, but I am not aware of what other technologies it supports. If someone wants to repl...

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What is your primary use case for SAP Replication Server?

It's basically to transfer data from one server to another. It's used for this purpose.

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Overview

Azure Data Factory efficiently manages and integrates data from various sources, enabling seamless movement and transformation across platforms. Its valuable features include seamless integration with Azure services, handling large data volumes, flexible transformation, user-friendly interface, extensive connectors, and scalability. Users have experienced improved team performance, workflow simplification, enhanced collaboration, streamlined processes, and boosted productivity.

Microsoft

Information and data-driven insight is what powers business today. But to get the most from your enterprise data, you need a way to bring transactional, streaming, social media, and other data together – regardless of its format and whether it’s structured or unstructured – and be able to analyze it. The challenge is moving, replicating, and centralizing a wide variety of data efficiently, cost-effectively, and quickly enough to meet business demands for active insight. SAP® Replication Server® can help. SAP Replication Server enables the continuous movement of mission-critical application data.

SAP

Sample Customers

1. Adobe 2. BMW 3. Coca-Cola 4. General Electric 5. Johnson & Johnson 6. LinkedIn 7. Mastercard 8. Nestle 9. Pfizer 10. Samsung 11. Siemens 12. Toyota 13. Unilever 14. Verizon 15. Walmart 16. Accenture 17. American Express 18. AT&T 19. Bank of America 20. Cisco 21. Deloitte 22. ExxonMobil 23. Ford 24. General Motors 25. IBM 26. JPMorgan Chase 27. Microsoft (Azure Data Factory is developed by Microsoft) 28. Oracle 29. Procter & Gamble 30. Salesforce 31. Shell 32. Visa

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