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We performed a comparison between SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse 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.
To learn more, read our detailed SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse vs. Vertica Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"It provides us with proof of data, we can centralize all of the information, check it, and then provide the information to our users.""It is a robust system.""Transformation is a valuable feature of SAP NetWeaver. I can transform the data as per my needs or my client's needs. For example, flat tables can be transformed with respect to our requirements to combine multiple modules into one single table, and we can derive analytics.""The security and audit procedures are the most valuable features.""It's an excellent over-all tool for managers to analyze their business.""A robust and efficient product.""Data modeling is a valuable feature."

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"Its projections and encoding are excellent tools for tuning large volumes.""Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed.""Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product.""The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good.""Partition and join back to node are easy and simple for DBAs.""DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs.""We are also opening new areas of business and potential new revenue streams using Vertica's analytic functions, most notably geospatial, where we are able to run billions of comparisons of lat/long point locations against polygon and point/radius locations in seconds. ​""The feature I like best is performance. We use Red Tool and Red Job for the data warehouse and reporting. It's perfect. Performance is good, and it can return ad hoc queries very quickly. Of course, it's a cluster, so it's easy to scale."

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Cons
"The product could provide more features.""It is difficult when your native language is not English. It is difficult for us to explain our issue and also difficult for the technical team to explain a resolution to us.""I think more integration with other applications would be perfect.""There are performance issues in terms of scalability and availability.""Connectors are complex, and it is difficult to understand or know which connector should be used. For instance, if I want to connect APIs, I will not be able to do it directly. I would have to go to the portal integration to get the data. Therefore, having simplified connectors will make things much easier.""Design and modeling could be simplified.""The program is difficult to learn to use"

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"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow.""Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly.""Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes.""They could improve the integration and some of the features in the cloud version.""The geospatial functionality could be designed better.""I have found that coding support could be simplified.""It's hard to make it slow for a small data volume. For large volumes, it's hard to make it work. It's also hard to make it faster, and to make it scale.""In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Pricing is based on the number of user IDs and tyhe user ID works across a suite of products."
  • "The licensing cost is high for SAP NetWeaver compared to that for other products."
  • "All SAP products are expensive."
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  • "Work with a vendor, if possible, and take advantage of more aggressive discounts at mid-fiscal year (April) and fiscal year-end (October).​"
  • "It's free up to three nodes and 1TB, and then get in contact with their sales guys."
  • "Start with license per 1TB. Starting from hundreds of TB there is unlimited licensing to be considered. Move historical data to HDFS/S3 which are significantly cheaper or even free."
  • "The first TB is free and you can use all the Vertica features. After 1TB you have to pay for licensing. The product is worth it, but be aware of this condition, and plan. The compression ratio is explained in the documentation."
  • "I think it's starting to get a little expensive. Open source products are starting to get more robust, so I think that's something that they need to start looking at in terms of licensing."
  • "Read the fine print carefully."
  • "It is fast to purchase through the AWS Marketplace."
  • "The pricing and licensing depend on the size of your environment and the zone where you want to implement."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple.
    Top Answer:In my opinion, nothing needs improvement in the solution as it is a great product. The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required. Vertica needs to increase… more »
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    14th
    out of 33 in Data Warehouse
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    8.0
    4th
    out of 33 in Data Warehouse
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    Also Known As
    NetWeaver Business Warehouse, NetWeaver BusinessObjects Warehouse
    Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
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    Overview
    With NetWeaver Business Warehouse, you can quickly Capture, store, and consolidate your vital information with our real-time data warehouse platform. Tightly integrate your warehousing capabilities for a single version of the truth, decision-ready business intelligence, and accelerated operations.

    Vertica is a deploy-anywhere SQL database created for elasticity, speed, and advanced analytics. Vertica enables today’s busy teams to modernize their data warehouses, democratize data and analytics to enable increased access, and deploy analytics in a hybrid cloud environment. Additionally, Vertica merges how companies power their analytics by providing a scalable, open, and elastic database with numerous intuitive features.

    In today’s marketplace, organizations are experiencing continued robust growth of data volumes, and citizen data scientists’ broader use of analytics is causing many companies to re-visit and re-examine their systems in order to match the demands of an aggressive marketplace. Analytics are continually swiftly evolving. New data from social media, blogs, IoT sources, data streams, gas and electrical grids, and mobile networks is being constantly gathered in extensive data sets. This presents organizations with a new opportunity to become more data driven, and they must be able to manage the new data growth and identify the trends and sequences that can lead to both improved business opportunities and continued repeat business from their clients.

    Vertica Benefits:

    Vertica has many valuable key benefits. Some of its most useful benefits include:

    • Efficiency:  Vertica provides robust compression and intuitive impressions. This results in users requiring significantly less storage and hardware than other comparable data analytics solutions. The progressive Vertica architecture results in queries that are 10-50 times faster than other platforms while providing more storage data per server.
    • Integration: Each new iteration of Vertica is tested and certified with the latest ETL and visualization tools. It actively supports Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), and popular SQL providers. All these solutions and most leading BI and visualization tools interact seamlessly, making Vertica overall a very cost-effective solution and solid business investment.
    • Cloud flexibility: With Vertica, users do not have to get locked into a single cloud vendor. Users are able to take complete advantage of the current infrastructure that is already in place. Vertica seamlessly integrates with popular public clouds, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, AWS, Alibaba, VMware clouds, and more. It also provides for easy portability across on-premise and multi-cloud environments and data lakes. Vertica designs a robust flexible platform for running a company’s analytical and computing workloads, which allows applications to run simultaneously on numerous environments in a hybrid cloud infrastructure. Vertica is able to seamlessly use public clouds and private data centers, and it grants the flexibility to switch in an instant.
    • Security: Vertica offers dynamic end-to-end security with support for partner solutions and industry-standard protocols such as Apache Sentry, AWS IAM, Kerberos, LDAP, and more. Vertica utilizes an intuitive layered security model that provides multiple security authentication authorization mechanisms. Vertica will also maintain an audit trail, natively exported to other security domains for analysis and persistence. 

    Reviews from Real Users

    “I am using Vertica for aggregations and dashboards. The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good.” - Bijal S., Group Chief Technology Officer at Netcore Solutions

    “The hardware usage and speed has been the most valuable feature of this solution. It is very fast and has saved us a lot of money.” - Munkhsaikhan B.,  Project Lead - Digital Transformation Unit at Bodi Electronics LLC

    Sample Customers
    EMC Corporation, Takisada-Osaka Co. Ltd., Eldorado, Mozzart, The VELUX Group, AOK Bundesverband, Hilti Group, Nissha Printing Company Ltd., Asian Paints, Aareal Bank Group, Magazine zum Globus (Migros Group)
    Cerner, Game Show Network Game, Guess by Marciano, Supercell, Etsy, Nascar, Empirix, adMarketplace, and Cardlytics.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Manufacturing Company16%
    Transportation Company9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Media Company17%
    Marketing Services Firm14%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business22%
    Large Enterprise78%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise42%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
    Buyer's Guide
    SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse vs. Vertica
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse vs. Vertica and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 82 reviews. SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is rated 7.8, while Vertica is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse writes "Powerful solution with good security and audit procedure features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse is most compared with SAP BW4HANA and SAP Business Warehouse, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata. See our SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse vs. Vertica report.

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