Fun Facts About SAP HANA vs Oracle
1. SAP HANA is cheaper than Oracle
If you compare the application platform licensing fees, HANA is cheaper. HANA data reduction world of compression and simplified data models, easy to buy equipment and flexible license packages you can license HANA to get the configuration that matches the Oracle database, including all the features you need. Because SAP does not require additional costs for HA / DR, so it will be more possible to create a robust solution!And remember that if you buy S / 4HANA in 2015, you will get all future innovations including the price of SAP Business Suite at the HANA runtime license last year.
If you install an Enterprise solution, SAP HANA is available at a single cost for all features, including those that are compatible with Enterprise, multitenant, RAC, Active Data Guard, Partitioning, Advanced Compression, Advanced Security, OLAP, Advanced Analysis, Spatial and Graphics, databases in - Memory, Diagnostic Packages, Tuning Packages, Database Lifecycle Management Packages, and more. If you want to get the best from Oracle, costs will be a hindrance for some companies.
The RAC costs for the Exadata x5-2 complete rack are just over $ 3 million (don't forget the extra $ 1 million for reserve Exadata!). For this reason, most customers do not use the advanced Oracle Functions - too expensive.
2. SAP in Oracle has no future
This might be controversial, but SAP on Oracle has no future. Look at the April 2015 Update Road Map if you want to see what is requested.For example, if you release work data that is in your SAP to Oracle 12c, you cannot currently update it (yes, seriously!). You cannot use any of Oracle's innovations, including Oracle Database 12c In-Memory, Oracle Database 12c Multitenant, Oracle Database 12c ADO / ILM or Hybrid Columnar Compression for Exadata. And that only limits operations.
In addition, SAP Oracle will only be supported until 2025, and this has beneficial implications for SAP customers, many of whom use a roadmap for 5-10 years. The system is relatively expensive to implement and maintain, as well as customers need to plan ahead.
Up for SAP Business Suite 7.0, SAP S / 4HANA, will only run on the HANA platform. SAP on Oracle has no future.
3. SAP HANA allows new class applications
One of the things that support about working with HANA is that innovation comes very smoothly and often. There have been past updates of HANA coming too often, but the speed has slowed down a bit over the past 18 months, approved for data center use. There are some updates that are more frequent to be adopted at the beginning or those that regulate new functions, but for the most part, for now it is possible to get major innovations every 6 months with a minimum.
HANA SPS09 came in November (soon the datacenter was approved) and it provided a ton of innovations including integrated ETL and maintenance, multitenancy, support for Big Data and IoT, Event Stream Processing and more. Read What's New in SAP HANA SPS09 for more details.
Oracle 12c has been out for 2 years and is now even supported for SAP applications, and innovation has been very rare even since Oracle 11g.
What this means is that HANA allows a new class of business applications to be developed. In S / 4HANA Logistics, SAP achieves more than 70% data reduction by using redundancy. What happens if we now mix in spatial awareness of products and customers, how can we activate maintenance and manage proactively in the right place?
4. No Hardware Lock-In
To date, there are 538 configurations in the SAP HANA Certified Hardware Directory and this number continues to increase every day. You can run HANA on anything from VMWare tools together with only slither 64GB of memory, up to the 112TB cluster, and so on. There are 22 Certified Enterprise Storage solutions if you want to reuse existing hardware assets.What's more you can keep an honest vendor because hardware configurations are very easy to compare, so you can decide what provides you with the right value for money and functionality.
Instead, Oracle locks you in 1/4, 1/2, and full rack solutions that you can see on the Oracle Engineered Systems Price List. The $ 1 million full-rack solution has 2TB of DRAM - that's what you get in a $ 100k pizza box from one of 11 SAP HANA vendors. And the SAP HANA 2TB tool is large enough (and mission-critical enough) to run almost all SAP ERP systems out there, aside from very large companies.
Want HA? There are no problems, this can be easily configured. There is no expensive license for RAC and there is no complicated implementation process.
5. SAP HANA is a Cloud Platform
SAP HANA has always been envisioned as a cloud platform, although initially as an analysis database. The HANA Cloud Platform brings the capabilities of a full scale cloud application platform to developers and ISVs alike.HANA Enterprise Cloud brings managed-cloud-as-a-services capabilities for businesses that previously would buy a local database, and included a partnership with IBM SoftLayer.
SAP S / 4HANA will be available in public or private clouds, depending on your needs - or even on-premise. One thing to note: S / 4HANA is cloud-first, and on-premise second. Cloud users are first class citizens on S / 4 land.
This does not detract from the fact that many software customers still want to put their databases on-premise, especially in the industry in the future, but nodded to the fact that cloud software is the future, even in the Enterprise.