We performed a comparison between Apache Hadoop and SAP BW4HANA 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."I liked that Apache Hadoop was powerful, had a lot of tools, and the fact that it was free and community-developed."
"The most valuable feature is scalability and the possibility to work with major information and open source capability."
"It's good for storing historical data and handling analytics on a huge amount of data."
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very powerful and very cheap."
"What comes with the standard setup is what we mostly use, but Ambari is the most important."
"The ability to add multiple nodes without any restriction is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It is a file system for data collection. There are nodes in this cluster that contain all the information, directories, and other files. The nodes are based on the MySQL database."
"Hadoop is designed to be scalable, so I don't think that it has limitations in regards to scalability."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution's performance is really good. Also, it's easy to operate, easy to administer, and relatively simple to install."
"I like the reporting features of the solution."
"Its direct approach is the most valuable. You get more real time and capabilities than BW."
"I like how it blends no-code and ABAP code for complex transformations during data loading."
"The solution saves time and cost."
"The ability to instantly pull data is the most valuable feature."
"We benefited from BW/4HANA's ability to utilize predefined content inside. We didn't need to start from scratch."
"The load optimization capabilities of the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Hadoop's security could be better."
"Based on our needs, we would like to see a tool for data visualization and enhanced Ambari for management, plus a pre-built IoT hub/model. These would reduce our efforts and the time needed to prove to a customer that this will help them."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"General installation/dependency issues were there, but were not a major, complex issue. While migrating data from MySQL to Hive, things are a little challenging, but we were able to get through that with support from forums and a little trial and error."
"The price could be better. I think we would use it more, but the company didn't want to pay for it. Hortonworks doesn't exist anymore, and Cloudera killed the free version of Hadoop."
"The solution could use a better user interface. It needs a more effective GUI in order to create a better user environment."
"It would be helpful to have more information on how to best apply this solution to smaller organizations, with less data, and grow the data lake."
"I would like to be able to design new reports in a future release."
"The solution is not easy to implement. It requires a lot of learning at the beginning."
"I would like more integration."
"The dashboard should be simplified and made easier for exploration and decision making."
"The monitoring for the remodeling feature is very difficult to understand."
"BW/4HANA could improve query optimization. For example, there could be an error message that pops up when you hover over it if any query fails. That would make it easier to find out what went gone wrong. Guided SAP help tools would make it easier for us to go forward."
"I cannot integrate it with my other tools. It's not possible to do something in the predictive analysis. Mobile reporting is also not available."
"There's one area where the other vendors have an upper edge, which is the data lake. I think SAP is trying to figure out whether to stick with IQ, their own data lake solution, or push customers toward customer-preferred vendors, like Azure Data Lake, AWS, or any other provider."
Apache Hadoop is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 34 reviews while SAP BW4HANA is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 37 reviews. Apache Hadoop is rated 7.8, while SAP BW4HANA is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Apache Hadoop writes "Handles huge data volumes and create your own workflows and tables but you need to have deeper knowledge". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BW4HANA writes "Performs all necessary data warehouse tasks and offers additional functionalities". Apache Hadoop is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, Snowflake and Teradata, whereas SAP BW4HANA is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Amazon Redshift and Vertica. See our Apache Hadoop vs. SAP BW4HANA report.
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