SAP Business Warehouse vs Teradata comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 30, 2025

Teradata and SAP Business Warehouse are two prominent competitors in the data warehousing domain. Teradata holds an edge due to its capability to handle vast data volumes effectively, while SAP Business Warehouse stands out for seamless SAP ERP integration and real-time capabilities.

Features: Teradata offers fast query execution, scalability through parallel architecture, and robust security. Its adaptability and workload management make it suitable for handling large data volumes. SAP Business Warehouse, however, excels in seamless integration with SAP ERP, real-time data acquisition, and efficient data transformation processes.

Room for Improvement: Teradata could enhance transaction processing capabilities, improve cloud readiness, and refine usability in SQL functionalities. Its pricing and compatibility with big data platforms are also areas of concern. SAP Business Warehouse needs better data cleansing, more intuitive user interfaces, and improved integration with non-SAP tools. Users also seek enhancements in flexibility and reporting functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Teradata provides versatile deployment options across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, though cloud transitions can be complex. Its technical support is generally excellent but occasionally lacks in response times. SAP Business Warehouse offers flexibility in deployment but sometimes falls short in user support, with calls for enhanced integration guidance and customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Teradata is perceived as expensive but offers strong performance value for large projects. Its pricing models are evolving, but costs remain high, appealing more to large enterprises. SAP Business Warehouse also has high pricing with complex licensing tied to company revenue, limiting accessibility for smaller companies. Both solutions promise good ROI in performance and satisfaction, but Teradata provides a clearer cost-benefit value, while SAP's strength lies in its broader SAP ecosystem integration.

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SAP Business Warehouse vs. Teradata

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Business Warehouse

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

14th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Teradata

Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Customer Experience Management (6th), Backup and Recovery (21st), Data Integration (17th), Relational Databases Tools (8th), Data Warehouse (3rd), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (13th), Marketing Management (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of SAP Business Warehouse is 2.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Teradata is 8.5%, down from 9.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Data Warehouse Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Teradata	8.5%
SAP Business Warehouse	2.1%
Other	89.4%

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VishnuReddy2

Consulting Enterprise Architect at R2V2.ai

Have encountered complexity with programming language while working on large-scale data integration and have experienced improved governance and reporting

The only complexity I find with the product is the programming language; people find it harder, but once you know the language, it's not that difficult. Regarding the future of SAP Business Warehouse, I would to see added features that simplify the product very well now. They are coming up with a terminology called SAP BDC where they are consolidating their tools, SAP Data Sphere for integration and SAP BW for the ETL and warehousing parts, and SAP Analytics Cloud. They are packaging these three features and calling it Business Data Cloud; they are fully coming on the cloud. We have to wait and watch; they have been speaking about BW/4HANA for quite some time now, but the customers or clients I work with are not finding great interest and it was seen as a candidate for evaluation. I have seen people looking at the latest technologies who are already on cloud who started building from scratch on cloud, such as Snowflake or Databricks, which can process very huge amounts of data and also address unstructured data, where SAP lags behind in cases where there is a need to bring in unstructured data. I have worked with SAP Data Intelligence, which earlier used to be called SAP Data Hub. The unstructured data is not greatly handled in SAP at this point in time.

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Kirk Robinson

Interim and Fractional CIO and CTO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Has improved data quality, optimized reporting processes, and enabled predictive insights across business units

The limitation we encountered was related to speed, prompting us to increase our AWS cloud thresholds and benchmarks on the servers, adding more throughput. We have been testing that, but speed remains one of our key issues. The integration has been awesome because of the platforms and their usage, and usability is great. The most challenging aspect is finding Teradata resources, so we are focusing on internal training and looking for more Teradata experts. If Teradata could provide a list of certified experts, that would be fantastic. I rated Teradata a nine because the main area for improvement is the bandwidth of resources that could assist us in applying to our projects, specifically more certified and expert resources. The market share of Teradata professionals is limited, creating an issue for us.

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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

"I like that it integrates to open-source."

"The solution has functionality that makes it easy for end-users to readily extract data directly from Business Warehouse into Excel and carry on their analysis on their own."

"The key element in this solution is its rapid response. If you have a question about prices, buyers, customers, providers, or services, you need the answer in a minute or two. That's the key benefit for us that a solution like BW gives us."

"Out-of-the-box reports are very useful."

"The best features of SAP Business Warehouse that I am fond of are how this technology handles navigational attributes and the hierarchy; these are two interesting features."

"In terms of stability, comparatively, the solution is quite stable."

"The real-time information is great."

"The most useful feature is definitely the speed."

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"The most valuable features of Teradata are that it is a massively parallel platform and I can receive a lot of data and get the queries out correctly, especially if it's been appropriately designed. The native features make it very suitable for multiple large data tasks in a structured data environment. Additionally, the automation is very good."

"The data processing, clustering, and distributed computing are impressive."

"When it comes to integration, tools like Informatica seamlessly connect with Teradata. We ensure the Teradata database is configured correctly in Informatica, including the proper hostname and properties for the load process. We didn't find any major complexity or issues with integration."

"It's a pre-configured appliance that requires very little in terms of setting-up."

"The product's scalability is great. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"Building a data warehouse with Teradata has definitely helped a lot of our downstream applications to more easily access information."

"Their extensive experience in data warehousing, the platform's performance, and their strong reputation in the market are the most valuable."

"The most valuable features are the large volume of data and the structuring of the data to optimize it and get very optimal data warehouse solutions for customers."

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Cons

"You can start quickly but, when you have to get a little more detailed, when you have to change something, when you have to solve problems, it's not that easy. It's easy to start but evolving is not that easy."

"What I'd like improved in SAP Business Warehouse is its setup. It could be more flexible, and it could be a configuration-based setup."

"SAP Business Warehouse could integrate better with other ETL tools."

"Integration with SAP Business Warehouse's ETL tools is not straightforward."

"I'm not sure if our issue is related to BW or the Analysis Office. However, we're having performance issues in terms of time. It takes a long time to generate the report."

"One of our requirements is the ability to easily get answers regarding trends and exceptions. In BW, it is not that easy to get such information. I expect better trend and exception detection, better pattern detection."

"The solution could offer better connectivity with other databases."

"What I'd like to improve in SAP Business Warehouse is its data structure, that's a little bit rigid. It could be a bit more flexible, so you can design your data structure and improve performance when creating a solution. Currently, the way data is stored in SAP Business Warehouse is rigid."

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"I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web."

"Sometimes the large injestion takes days to load data, and some of our stored procedures take two to three days."

"The reporting side wasn't very good in the past, but with the latest versions, it's getting better. Still, the friendliness of the PDC reporting and functionality needs to be improved."

"The increasing volumes of data demand more and more performance."

"An additional feature I would you like to see included in the next release, is that it needs to be more cloud-friendly."

"The cost of Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse has room for improvement."

"Teradata has a few AI models, but in data science, we need more flexibility."

"The only issue our company has with Teradata IntelliFlex is that it is not cost-effective because of the way the product has been designed."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"SAP Business Warehouse licensing is a bit expensive compared to other products in the market."

"The license for SAP Business Warehouse is paid yearly, and there's no extra cost in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"It's quite pricey. SAP changed its pricing policy, so they give you one engine and then you have to buy everything next to it, like MSS, the BPC licenses, and everything else."

"The licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse depends on your revenue. Its licensing structure is a little bit complicated. The more your revenue is, the higher the price, but SAP does have different pricing structures for various companies. For small businesses, licensing isn't based on revenue, but for big companies, it's revenue-based. There's some agreement regarding pricing for huge companies, so it's different, and SAP Business Warehouse pricing isn't fixed. On a scale of one to ten, I'm rating the licensing cost for SAP Business Warehouse as five because it's very high. As your revenue grows, your licensing cost also increases, so you have to factor that in when calculating your cost."

"It's moderately expensive, but definitely has its branding and price value for it."

"I would not recommend it to small-scale companies. The price is too much."

"Overall, the pricing is not fixed and is expensive."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"Teradata pricing is fine, and it's competitive with all the legacy models. On a scale of one to five, with one being the worst and five being the best, I'm giving Teradata a three, because it can be a little expensive, when compared to other solutions."

"The tool costs about 30,000 euros a month, while Azure Synapse SQL only costs 10,000."

"Teradata is expensive, so it's typically marketed to big customers. However, there have been some changes, and Teradata is now offering more flexible pricing models and equipment leasing. They've added pay-as-you-go and cloud models, so it's changing, but Teradata is generally known as an expensive high-end product."

"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee for Teradata IntelliFlex, which is very expensive."

"Teradata is expensive but gives value for money, especially if you don't want to move your data to the cloud."

"Teradata is a very expensive solution."

"The product cost is high for what the client gets. There may be more cost-effective solutions for small and medium-sized organizations."

"The price of Teradata is on the higher side, and I think that it where they lose out on some of their business."

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Senior Data Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 5, 2015

Netezza vs. Teradata

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

12%

Retailer

Energy/Utilities Company

Non Profit

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	15

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	50

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SAP Business Warehouse?

Out-of-the-box reports are very useful.

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

The solution is quite expensive. We paid a yearly subscription fee.

What needs improvement with SAP Business Warehouse?

Over a period, we realized that the license and maintenance costs were quite expensive. Every day, we had to run the background job ODS. Eventually, we moved away from SAP Business Warehouse and bo...

Comparing Teradata and Oracle Database, which product do you think is better and why?

I have spoken to my colleagues about this comparison and in our collective opinion, the reason why some people may declare Teradata better than Oracle is the pricing. Both solutions are quite simi...

Which companies use Teradata and who is it most suitable for?

Before my organization implemented this solution, we researched which big brands were using Teradata, so we knew if it would be compatible with our field. According to the product's site, the comp...

Is Teradata a difficult solution to work with?

Teradata is not a difficult product to work with, especially since they offer you technical support at all levels if you just ask. There are some features that may cause difficulties - for example,...

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Compared 20% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Overview

Reporting, analysis and interpretation of business data are crucial to preserve and enhance the competitive edge of companies by optimizing processes and enabling them to react quickly and in line with market needs. SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) provides tools and functions that enable companies to attain these goals. In SAP BW, you can integrate, transform, and consolidate relevant business information from productive SAP applications and external data sources. SAP BW provides you with a high-performance infrastructure that helps you evaluate and interpret data. Decision makers can make well-founded decisions and identify target-orientated activities on the basis of the analyzed data.

SAP

Teradata is a powerful tool for handling substantial data volumes with its parallel processing architecture, supporting both cloud and on-premise environments efficiently. It offers impressive capabilities for fast query processing, data integration, and real-time reporting, making it suitable for diverse industrial applications.

Known for its robust parallel processing capabilities, Teradata effectively manages large datasets and provides adaptable deployment across cloud and on-premise setups. It enhances performance and scalability with features like advanced query tuning, workload management, and strong security. Users appreciate its ease of use and automation features which support real-time data reporting. The optimizer and intelligent partitioning help improve query speed and efficiency, while multi-temperature data management optimizes data handling.

What are the key features of Teradata?

Parallel Processing Architecture: Enables efficient handling of substantial data volumes.
Cloud and On-Premise Deployment: Offers seamless adaptability across environments.
Query Tuning: Improves speed and performance of data retrieval processes.
Workload Management: Ensures optimal resource allocation for enhanced performance.
Robust Security: Provides high levels of data protection and system integrity.
Data Integration: Facilitates cohesive data management from multiple sources.
Automation for Real-time Reporting: Enhances timely data insights and decision-making.
Optimizer and Intelligent Partitioning: Further increase query speed and system efficiency.
Multi-Temperature Data Management: Optimizes the handling and retrieval of data.

What benefits and ROI do users look for?

Efficient Data Management: Facilitates smooth integration and processing of diverse data sets.
Scalability: Easy adjustment to increasing or decreasing data requirements.
Improved Performance: Fast query speeds and optimized resource use.
Comprehensive Security: Safeguards data integrity and accessibility.
Ease of Use: Simplifies data handling and operational processes.

In the finance, retail, and government sectors, Teradata is employed for data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytical processing. It handles vast datasets for activities like customer behavior modeling and enterprise data integration. Supporting efficient reporting and analytics, Teradata enhances data storage and processing, whether deployed on-premise or on cloud platforms.

Sample Customers

Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone

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