We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and SAP BW4HANA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Oracle is known to be the number one in their industry; the help and support, the features they are giving the clients comparing to other databases, the new technology, the provide a good solution."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"Exadata with the In-Memory option is several levels about SAP HANA."
"What I like most about Oracle Exadata is its smart scan feature. I also like that it supports higher capacities and it's high-performing, so my company can use Oracle Exadata for massive databases."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"The most valuable features are the speed of reporting and the HANA database."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup was easy."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard."
"The solution seamlessly integrates with SAP products."
"The processes are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The solution's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install."
"From an ERP point of view and a functionality point of view, it works very well. The benefits are in that of financial costing and material management."
"Exadata would be improved with single dashboard visibility."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"The improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the monitoring system in the enterprise manager, it could be more user-friendly. In most Oracle tools there is a lot of functionality, and sometimes you need to do five or six clicks to find metrics, and sometimes it's a waste of time."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata is that it's not very easy to use in a microservices environment. It's not easy to split databases, and if this was easier to do in Oracle Exadata, it would make the solution better. What I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Exadata is for it to become more modular, so you can use it in a context where the data layer is spread between many independent services."
"In the next release, I would like to see their BI component introduced with a mobile version, as it is not currently present."
"BW/4HANA could improve query optimization. For example, there could be an error message that pops up when you hover over it if any query fails. That would make it easier to find out what went gone wrong. Guided SAP help tools would make it easier for us to go forward."
"I would like more integration."
"The licensing cost could be made better."
"We cannot integrate with third-party tools like Python or advanced integration options. You can't fine-tune tables within BW or generate specific views or reports."
"The tool is not cloud-compatible."
"I would like to be able to design new reports in a future release."
"Price wise, this solution is on the higher side."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 34 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA and Teradata. See our Oracle Exadata vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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