"We have found the solution to be customizable and it is beneficial it comes as a bundled package. Additionally, it is user-friendly."
"The in-memory computing and the efficient response time are very good features."
"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."
"What I like most are the dashboards and pervasive analytics."
"The solution is easy to scale."
"The performance is very, very good. It's one of the best aspects of the solution."
"The solution operates well."
"SAP HANA is vertically and horizontally scalable."
"The columnstore index feature is useful for us, and we also use the integration services. It is also very stable."
"We found it to be quite scalable."
"The security and vulnerability management are well-managed through the vendor."
"The most valuable features of this solution are easy queries and straightforward programming for beginners."
"The pricing of the solution is okay. It's less expensive than Oracle, for example."
"I like that the new version has a memory-optimized table to improve the performance."
"It is stable, and it works okay."
"In Poland, SQL Server is the most popular database engine, and overall, our customers like it."
"SAP HANA is not strong like Oracle when it comes to finance. They are only strong with the logistic business project."
"There could be better management for faster updates, last year there were some changes in India to the e-invoicing feature."
"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."
"SAP HANA is a very proprietary tool and there's not as much support available for it as there is for an SQL Server (which is more popular)."
"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."
"SAP HANA is not perfect and they could improve by having more options and more integration."
"Uses a large amount of RAM and is costly."
"The product lacks some flexibility in its settings and configurations."
"Better integration with other platforms would be an improvement."
"I am fine with the pricing, but pricing is an area that can always be improved."
"The remote access aspect needs to be improved in terms of security."
"Microsoft doesn't have active-active load balancing scenarios. It's always a failover cluster."
"Database support could be improved."
"I would like the SQL Server to be able to provide cloud support. We use the solution with a Korean provider supporting only MySQL rather than Microsoft SQL Server, which would be preferable and cheaper. This would prevent us from having to pay for troubleshooting and hosting the server."
"The performance could improve."
"When we are talking about event space architecture, scalability generally comes into play. For example, I might have a hundred thousand transactions a second, and then all of a sudden, I build something that everybody in the world wants. The next thing I know is that I have a million transactions a second. So, to be able to process the throughput, I'd have to scale up, and then when the holidays are over, I'm again down to a hundred thousand transactions, and I want to scale back down. SQL Server is not going to do that. In this way, it is not very scalable. One of the reasons why they want us to use Kafka is so that if we need to, we can do that, but our base program is on SQL Server. So, this is where we would use a Kafka event stack so that if I need more servers, I can just write a command, and I can have more consumers, more brokers, and more producers, and when the holiday season is over, it scales right back down again. SQL Server is not going to do that."
SAP HANA is ranked 4th in Relational Databases with 29 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases with 172 reviews. SAP HANA is rated 8.0, while SQL Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP HANA writes "Very robust solution with good data access". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Good performance, well-priced, trivial to set up, and helpful support". SAP HANA is most compared with Oracle Database, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database, Apache Spark and Oracle Database In-Memory, whereas SQL Server is most compared with Oracle Database, LocalDB, IBM Db2 Database, MariaDB and MySQL. See our SAP HANA vs. SQL Server report.
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