We performed a comparison between SAP BW4HANA and Vertica 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."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."
"It can calculate data in detail. Before we could not calculate financial documents and accountant documents in detail, we could not do it at a document level but now we can. This is the most important feature. It also has predictive analysis memory."
"Some of the main features of this solution are that it uses HANA and it has good performance."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard."
"We benefited from BW/4HANA's ability to utilize predefined content inside. We didn't need to start from scratch."
"We can get good visualization and less redundant data."
"The most valuable feature is that it's robust."
"The ability to instantly pull data is the most valuable feature."
"I appreciate the flexibility offered by Vertica's projections. It allows for modifying the primary projection without altering the tables, which helps to optimize queries without the need to modify the underlying data."
"I like the projection feature, which increases query performance."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"I enjoy the cybersecurity and backup features."
"Its projections and encoding are excellent tools for tuning large volumes."
"Vertica gives knowledgeable users and DBAs excellent tools for tuning."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"The solution is not easy to implement. It requires a lot of learning at the beginning."
"The monitoring for the remodeling feature is very difficult to understand."
"It takes too long to escalate problems from the first level of support."
"Connecting multiple sources is a challenge because you have to go through a lot of different setups."
"The solution is not scalable. It does not have a data streaming feature as well."
"The tool is not easy to use for an end user."
"They have taken out a few BW functionalities when they redesigned this. The way of multi-dimensional thinking and star schema got a little bit lost. It may be because of the cost, but certain functionalities that were previously implemented from the BW side should come back again in the whole product. It is a young product. It is version 2.0. In time, I'm pretty sure they will come back again because otherwise, it limits the potential of the product, and I have to do a lot of modeling towards that direction. For me, the analytics focus is too much. It is not cube-oriented in that way, so its functionality is limited. It is not really technically limited in the back end; it is more limited in the front end. It has a data-mining mindset for SQL developers. The navigational attributes should be easy. It needs to be built in models. I see the data mark cube or understanding that the composite provider needs to be models in a cube coming back. The multi-dimensional star schema approach and the reporting need to be done as well as possible to leverage the star scheme below. This is definitely not understood by many consultants and even composite providers for star schema. They always think in terms of flat tables, which is limiting. You need to build the right dimensions, objects, and so on. If you can build this in BW4HANA, then you have this understanding that BW4HANA is not forcing you in this direction, but it should force you a bit better in this direction. Maybe a few elements which were in use in BW should come back again. It would help the community to determine the direction to build on the cube. You can have maybe 50 elements, and then you can expand it to what you need by leveraging navigation. So far, this functionality is a little bit limited in the tool, and it is not thought through, but I think it will come. They should also be adding more capabilities for the transformation between different objects. In BW, this is currently limited, especially towards composite providers. It is a bit complex basically in the building. You have to have a lot of knowledge as well as know how to do it better because it is a bit different from BW. There is not too much expertise currently in the consulting markets. Many are trying to build something, but it may be based on their knowledge of what they have from the BW and HANA side. You have to find the right mix from both of them at this time. We also have HANA Native. These are our two different sync sources basically, and we have approaches to connect nicely, but it is hard to manage your team because a lot of coaching is required."
"The cost of the product might be an area that might introduce some restrictions or limitations to customers, making it one of the aspects where improvements are required."
"We faced some challenges when trying to use the temporary tables feature."
"Vertica can improve automation and documentation. Additionally, the solution can be simplified."
"Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Vertica offers a platform-as-a-service version, but their software-as-a-service solution is only available on AWS. They need to get a SaaS version on Azure and GCP as fast as possible."
"The biggest problem is the cost of cloud deployment."
"Vertica's native cloud support could be improved, and its installation could be made easier."
SAP BW4HANA is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 34 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "An easy-to-operate and administer tool that needs to consider revising its existing licensing cost". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA and Oracle Database Appliance, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata. See our SAP BW4HANA vs. Vertica report.
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