Executive Summary We have obtained reports of SQL Server outperforming HANA. We analyze the hardware specification differences that lie beneath SQL Server versus HANA. Why are IT departments not noticing that HANA’s performance is so unimpressive versus dramatically less expensive databases? This article was updated as of February 2021. Video Introduction: Why it is Likely…
Executive Summary To contradict our research conclusions on SAP HANA, one SAP resource attempted to redefine the term latency. What happened after this SAP consultant was questioned on this point? Introduction SAP resources are desperate to undermine Brightwork Research & Analysis. And they come up with creative ways to undermine our conclusions. This is one…
Executive Summary HANA has performance problems when supporting transaction processing applications like S/4HANA. We cover one possible reason for this. Video Introduction: Why SAP HANA Has Problems with Transaction Processing Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP proposed that HANA is optimal for processing either OLAP or OLTP. And SAP had a specific…
Executive Summary Dan Matthews, the CTO of IFS, wrote an article about memory. We review how accurate he was in his article. Introduction Dan Matthews’s paper 3 Things Business Decision Makers Need to Know About In Memory Enterprise Software was published in May 2017. Our References for This Article If you want to see our…
Executive Summary SAP has used the SD benchmarks for years for other databases. Four years into S/4HANA, SAP has no benchmarks for S/HANA SD or ECC SD on HANA. Introduction SAP has used the SD benchmarks for years to test for transaction processing performance, but something peculiar happened when SAP released HANA, and the benchmarking…
Executive Summary SAP developed a new benchmark to make HANA look good. We cover the problems with creating a benchmark for BW. Introduction After SAP HANA was released in 2011, SAP created the BW-EML benchmark (renamed the BWAML) and the BWH benchmark. Both of these benchmarks were for SAP’s BW application. SAP published no HANA…
Executive Summary SAP has made enormous claims around HANA, but data points from the field contradict these claims. In this article, we cover one of these case studies. Video Introduction: A HANA Performance and HANA on Azure Case Study Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) We have covered in the article, How Accurate…
Executive Summary Lenovo published a benchmark of ECC on AnyDB versus S/4HANA on HANA. We cover the problems with this benchmark. Video Introduction: The Problems with the Strange Lenovo HANA Benchmark Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) On April 10, 2018, Lenovo published the technical paper, Lenovo SAP S/4HANA Scale out – Cycle…
Executive Summary SAP made many claims about HANA, but what SAP did with HANA is reinventing the wheel upon analysis. We cover SAP proposals ranging from code pushdown to in-memory computing to the fictitious backstory for HANA. Video Introduction: HANA as a Derivative Product Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) Innovation has been…
Executive Summary SAP has proposed that HANA is a perfect fit for ERP. However, the evidence is that there is no advantage of HANA for ERP systems, but there are many disadvantages. In this article, we discuss where our data comes from related to HANA’s mismatch. Video Introduction: S/4HANA’s Mismatch with ERP Systems Text Introduction (Skip…