We performed a comparison between Exasol and SAP HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to scale."
"The speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"Its speed is great."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"The memory is the solution's most valuable feature. It's the main feature of HANA. Others are still the regular IT databases that are on storage and are therefore much slower than HANA. The solution is quite fast."
"If you want to scale with new processes and new reports, that's fairly easy."
"We have found the solution to be customizable and it is beneficial it comes as a bundled package. Additionally, it is user-friendly."
"The solution is extremely stable. That's the most important aspect of the solution, for our organization. There is no downtime, and the performance is very good."
"We've had good experiences with technical support."
"It is very stable and very innovative. You can integrate many applications with it."
"We like that the product is both vertically and horizontally scalable, allowing us to do around 86 percent compression of documentation from 50 to seven terabytes."
"Some functions have good performance."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"I would have rated the solution higher if this version was not missing some key features the newer version has."
"The only downside of the product is that it is an expensive solution that needs to consider lowering its prices to improve the product."
"They can improve their technology for the CRM subsystem. There are other products that are better and more effective for the CRM subsystem. Its price could be better. It is expensive."
"I think that the pricing is high and it needs improvement."
"SAP HANA is not perfect and they could improve by having more options and more integration."
"The relationship with a partner that sells SAP could be better. We depend much more on our own development, and the partner is for selling us the solutions, so we need them to be able to supply help and answers. The partner isn't very helpful, and we have to rely on our own knowledge and research."
"I would like to see improvements in the connectivity of the solution with other BI software. Not every software can connect to it natively."
"The worst thing about SAP HANA is the price; it's very expensive. The licensing cost, implementation cost, hosting cost, and appliance cost are all high."
Exasol is ranked 12th in Relational Databases Tools with 8 reviews while SAP HANA is ranked 3rd in Relational Databases Tools with 79 reviews. Exasol is rated 8.0, while SAP HANA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Exasol writes "Fast query processing and easy-to-store all the data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Excellent compatibility between modules and the control". Exasol is most compared with SQL Server, Vertica, Oracle Database In-Memory, MySQL and Oracle Database, whereas SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, SQL Server, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and Apache Spark. See our Exasol vs. SAP HANA report.
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