SAP HANA vs SingleStore comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.1

SAP HANA offers time and cost savings, with notable ROI and customization benefits, though integration costs challenge some companies.

Sentiment score

6.9

SingleStore offers cost-efficient, scalable solutions with easy setup, supporting enterprise-level transactional and analytical needs in one platform.

We do not feel we're getting value for the investment due to the additional resources needed for integration and maintenance.

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Director of Infrastructure at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have seen a return on investment with SAP HANA as it typically delivers measurable ROI, especially in finance and month-end close processes.

PremKumarR

Finance Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

SAP HANA is a cost-saving solution that helps save money and serves as a time-saving solution that helps save time.

Joe Lau

Senior Manager at PwC

The objective was to scale as data loads with high-performing query model responses.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.1

SAP HANA offers high-quality 24/7 customer service, but experiences vary, with concerns over slow responses and complex issue handling.

Sentiment score

7.6

SingleStore's 24/7 proactive support is highly rated, personalized, and effective, using Zendesk for prioritization and dedicated onboarding support.

The community support is better than the official SAP support.

SAP Analytics Lead at Miracle Software Systems, Inc

While issues are resolved eventually, the first level of support is not as good as we would like.

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Sup-basis consultant at a security firm with 51-200 employees

When we raise a ticket for AWS or Azure issues, we find their support is very proactive, while SAP's support is quite passive.

Dhiraj Jankar

Senior SAP Basis Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The customer support is very proactive and responsive twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

SAP HANA provides scalable enterprise-level solutions, allowing seamless vertical and horizontal expansion to efficiently handle substantial data volumes.

Sentiment score

8.1

SingleStore efficiently scales with minimal downtime, handling extensive queries and complex tasks, despite challenges with data growth.

SAP HANA handles large data volumes efficiently, allowing for adding more modules or users without performance issues.

PremKumarR

Finance Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Our operations have grown from a hundred data operations a day to as many in a couple of seconds.

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Director of Infrastructure at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

It depends on what needs to change in the structure, as some entities cannot be changed and require a new implementation, while others can be modified.

Bassem Mohammed

IT Application Manager at TBTD

SingleStore's scalability is high and it can be used by any size of organization and can handle any needs of any organization.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

SAP HANA is praised for its stability, reliability, and efficiency, with improvements seen in version 2.0 and initial configurations.

Sentiment score

8.4

SingleStore is rated highly stable, with most downtime caused by external factors, receiving ratings between seven and ten.

We recently faced customer data loss during the cluster handover or failover fallback.

Dhiraj Jankar

Senior SAP Basis Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

We have not had any problems in the last seven to eight years.

Sup-basis consultant at a security firm with 51-200 employees

Regarding stability, they are using legacy systems and have implemented SAP HANA.

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SAP Analytics Lead at Miracle Software Systems, Inc

I have not seen any downtime.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Room For Improvement

SAP HANA needs improvements in interface, scalability, integration, and cost efficiency, with enhanced support, training, and mobile integration.

SingleStore users need improved Azure integration, better documentation, advanced SQL features, and optimized data handling and server tools.

The main issue is the ecosystem, which lacks the widespread support that SQL enjoys.

Director of Infrastructure at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

The setup process and deployment process for SAP HANA is complex.

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Program manger at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Licensing costs with SAP HANA are very high.

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SAP Analytics Lead at Miracle Software Systems, Inc

Error handling needs attention. When it fails due to memory, it only indicates that but not exactly in which process it failed.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Setup Cost

SAP HANA is costly due to licensing, setup, and hardware expenses, affecting affordability for smaller businesses despite robust capabilities.

SingleStore's pricing is cost-effective for large firms with flexible cloud tiers and free on-premises licensing for startups.

It's a recurring subscription model, which is expensive compared to legacy systems with just a maintenance fee.

Director of Infrastructure at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

SAP is not a cheap company, and its licenses are expensive.

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Sup-basis consultant at a security firm with 51-200 employees

I would rate the price for SAP HANA as high.

Dhiraj Jankar

Senior SAP Basis Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it can be a bit expensive for startups.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Valuable Features

SAP HANA offers real-time processing, integration, scalability, and user-friendly interface, enhancing speed, reporting, and diverse business adaptability.

SingleStore offers fast recovery, high data compression, and scalability, enhancing performance, productivity, and efficient data processing with seamless integration.

This architecture allows for faster data processing and real-time analytics that were not possible with traditional databases.

Director of Infrastructure at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

The concept enhances speed, allowing the database to serve and move data quickly.

Sup-basis consultant at a security firm with 51-200 employees

One of our dashboards using Excelsius was previously developed on normal BW on Oracle data, which took 10 minutes to open. After developing the same calculation views using those tables and replacing them with calculation views in Excelsius, the dashboard opened in seconds.

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SAP Analytics Lead at Miracle Software Systems, Inc

SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone.

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Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

Categories and Ranking

SAP HANA

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Virtualization (2nd), Embedded Database (2nd), Relational Databases Tools (3rd), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (3rd)

SingleStore

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database as a Service (DBaaS) (17th), Vector Databases (17th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Databases solutions, they serve different purposes. SAP HANA is designed for Embedded Database and holds a mindshare of 9.8%, up 8.0% compared to last year.
SingleStore, on the other hand, focuses on Database as a Service (DBaaS), holds 2.9% mindshare, up 1.7% since last year.

Embedded Database Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP HANA	9.8%
SQLite	20.4%
Firebird SQL	15.9%
Other	53.9%

Embedded Database

Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SingleStore	2.9%
Amazon RDS	12.6%
MongoDB Atlas	12.1%
Other	72.4%

Database as a Service (DBaaS)

Featured Reviews

Performs well with high database and reporting performance

SAP Analytics Lead at Miracle Software Systems, Inc

We face difficulties replicating the AC DOCA table, which is a huge table, from S/4HANA to SAP HANA BAS, Business Application Studio, or HANA Studio using SLT. For developing Power BI reports using the AC DOCA table, we are replicating full data daily. We want to implement delta load, and while we used OData service for one client, the delta OData service link is not properly updating delta records. Licensing costs with SAP HANA are very high. Due to high pricing, many clients are moving from BW on SAP HANA and S/4HANA to Azure SQL. I have worked with several clients who have moved all data flows to Azure and developed Power BI queries on top of Azure. Many clients are also using Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The certification costs are also very high, more than ₹1,40,000 INR. Previously, it was ₹30,000 to ₹40,000. I want to pursue three certifications but am unable to do so due to the cost.

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Real-time analytics has transformed daily decisions and delivers fast dashboards from streaming data

Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell

The best features SingleStore offers include fast data recovery and data compression by 80 percent. Having the information in sheets helps me to process the information quickly. Simplicity in T-SQL is another aspect I appreciate. Data recovery and sheet-based processing help my team on a day-to-day basis by enabling us to handle information efficiently. I would like to add that the data compression by 80 percent helps us in an excellent way since we are very fast in obtaining the data for our dashboards and the compression of the information is great. SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone. It has been very helpful because our internal clients are happy to have the data and make data-driven decisions easily. Making decisions based on data within a two-hour delay to the transactional database is excellent since we went from twenty-four hours to two hours. I think the best contribution is decision-making with data that is close to reality. Reducing that delay from twenty-four hours to two hours has significantly affected my team and business outcomes by increasing productivity. We have been able to serve all our customers, and they are very happy. We can deliver to them on time.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Government

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	62

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What are the biggest benefits of using SAP HANA?

Based on my work with SAP HANA, the biggest benefit that it can bring to your business is total data management. This product is by SAP - a company that serves almost all needs a client may have co...

Is SAP HANA’s customer and technical support reliable?

We have been using SAP HANA for a fairly short period of time and have only taken advantage of their customer support. So far, we have not had issues that required specialized help from technical s...

Is SAP HANA difficult to set up and start using?

SAP HANA is fairly easy to set up, however, I do not think a complete beginner can do it. You certainly need some preparation - either you need to have experience with similar solutions, or with ot...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SingleStore DB?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it can be a bit expensive for startups, but for my organization, the cost is affordable and cost-effective.

What needs improvement with SingleStore DB?

SingleStore can be improved in the aspect that the Azure pipelines do not have many parameterization features compared to others, for example, AWS. Also, error handling needs attention. When it fai...

What is your primary use case for SingleStore DB?

My main use case for SingleStore is real-time analytics and data storage and serving for my ML workloads. It enables me to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is qu...

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Also Known As

SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance, HANA

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Overview

SAP HANA, also known as SAP High-performance Analytics Appliance, is a multi-model database that stores data in its memory, allowing users to avoid disk storage. The product combines its robust database with services for creating applications. SAP HANA is faster than other database management systems (DBMS) because it stores data in column-based tables in main memory and brings online analytical processing (OLAP) and online transaction processing (OLTP) together.

The column-oriented in-memory database design allows users to run high-speed transactions alongside advanced analytics, all in a single system. This provides companies with the ability to process very large amounts of data with low latency and query data in an instant. By combining multiple data management capabilities, the solution simplifies IT, helps businesses with innovations, and facilitates digital transformation.

The solution is structured into five groups of capabilities, categorized as:

Database design
Database management
Application development
Advanced analytics
Data virtualization

There are three more SAP products that work alongside SAP HANA and complete the experience for users together. SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a ready-to-run cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP). SAP BW/4HANA is a packaged data warehouse, based on SAP HANA, which allows users to consolidate data across the enterprise to get a consistent view of their data. Finally, SAP Cloud is a single database as a service (DBaaS) foundation for modern applications and analytics across all enterprise data. All three products can combine with SAP HANA to deliver to users an optimized experience regarding their data.

SAP HANA Features

Each architectural group of capabilities of SAP HANA has various features that users can benefit from. These include:

Parallel processing database: SAP HANA utilizes a single platform to run transactional and analytical workloads.
ACID compliance: This feature ensures compliance with requirements for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) standards.
Multi-tenancy: This feature allows multiple tenant databases to run in one system while sharing the same memory and processors.
Multi-tier storage and persistent memory support: SAP HANA's native storage extension is a built-in capability to manage between memory and persistent storage, including SAP HANA Cloud Data Lake.
Scaling: The scaling feature supports terabytes of data in a single server and distributes large tables across multiple servers in a cluster to scale further.
Data modeling: This feature consists of graphical modeling tools that enable collaboration between stakeholders and the creation of models to execute complex business logic and data transformation in real time.
Stored procedures: The product has a native language to build stored procedures and uses advanced capabilities to create complex logic.
Administration: This feature consists of administration tools for various platform lifecycle, performance, and management operations and automations.
Security: SAP HANA provides its users with real-time data anonymization features to extract value from data while protecting privacy.
Availability and recovery: The tool supports high availability and disaster recovery through an array of techniques, including backup, storage mirroring, synchronous, asynchronous, and multitarget system replication.
Extended application services: Through its built-in application server, users can develop services such as REST and ODATA, as well as web applications that can run on multiple locations.
Client access: The product offers clients the ability to access it via other application platforms and languages, including Java, JavaScript, R, and Go.
Application lifecycle management: This set of features facilitates the building and packaging of applications, transporting them for development to test to production, and then deploying them.
Application development: This feature consists of a set of tools that offer application development on premises and in the Cloud. The programming language ABAP includes additional optimized features to build extensions to SAP applications.
Search: The search feature uses SQL to locate text promptly across multiple columns and textual content.
Spatial processing: This product feature provides native support for spatial data types and spatial functions.
Graph: Through this feature, users of the product can store and process highly connected data using a property graph.
Streaming analytics: This feature combines various data sources that users can utilize to discover trends over a set period.
Data integration and replication: The solution offers comprehensive features to handle all data integration scenarios.
Data federation: This feature allows users to perform queries on remote data sources in real time with data federation.
Caching: The capacity to cache data provides users with the ability to optimize federated queries against remote sources of data.

SAP HANA Benefits

SAP HANA provides many benefits for its users. These include:

This solution offers a high level of data and application security, beginning from a secure setup and providing continuous support.
SAP HANA offers augmentation for applications and analytics with built-in machine learning (ML).
The solution works in a timely manner, as it provides a response to queries within seconds in large production applications.
SAP HANA simplifies work, as it provides a single gateway to all user data with advanced data virtualization.
The product is very flexible, as it allows users to deploy applications in a public or private cloud, in multiple clouds, on premises, or hybrid.
SAP HANA scales easily for data volume and concurrent users across a distributed environment.
This is a powerful solution in terms of querying large datasets with a massively parallel processing (MPP) database.
SAP HANA is a versatile product that supports hybrid transactional and analytical processing as well as many data types.
The product provides a smaller data footprint with no data duplication or advanced compression, and reduces data silos.

Reviews from Real Users

According to a database consultant at a pharma/biotech company, SAP HANA is a very robust solution with good data access.

Bruno V., owner at LAVORO AUTOM INF E COM LTDA, likes SAP HANA because the product offers advanced features, helps reduce hours, and makes it easy to find what you need.

SAP

SingleStore delivers the performance you need for enterprise AI, providing the most performant data platform for apps and analytics at scale. SingleStore enables organizations to scale from one to one million customers in one unified platform. SingleStore offers transparent pricing as shown here https://www.singlestore.com/pricing/

SingleStore caters to over 400 customers globally, including major banks and tech companies in 50+ countries and 40+ verticals. It offers seamless scaling for both transactional and analytical workloads, simplifying data management with its MySQL compatibility and real-time processing capabilities. SingleStore's distributed architecture ensures speed and reliability, efficiently handling large data volumes.

What are the key features of SingleStore?

MySQL Compatibility: Eases the learning curve for users.
Built-in Pipelines: Connects to S3, Kafka, and more.
High Concurrency: Processes billions of records swiftly.
Replication & Failover: Enhances speed and reliability.
In-memory Storage: Ensures data safety and quick access.

What benefits can users find in SingleStore reviews?

Automatic Reconfiguration: Simplifies management tasks.
Impressive SQL Performance: Supports complex queries efficiently.
Scalability: Handles large datasets with a multi-node setup.

Top banks and fintech companies leverage SingleStore for efficient management of financial data, while media and telecom industries use it for scalable metadata management and improved data processing. Retail and eCommerce sectors benefit from enhanced transactional capabilities, reducing the need for separate databases and optimizing reporting processes. SingleStore's capacity to unite diverse workloads makes it a strategic choice across many sectors.