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SAP HANA vs Oracle Exalytics – the game is on
Posted on October 3, 2011 by John Appleby
So Oracle announced Exalytics yesterday and I’ve spent much of today thinking about it in the back of my mind whilst I did my day job. It’s about the most interesting announcement of the tech world this year and it’s worth discussing why.
What is Oracle Exalytics?
Well it’s a bit like SAP HANA. It’s a big (relatively) commodity piece of hardware with 40 Intel cores and 1TB of main memory. It can store a claimed 5-10TB of compressed analytics data, but beware of false compression claims. On this, you can perform high-speed analytics on medium-size datasets.
Exalytics is a technology mashup of its TimesTen in-memory database technology, BI stack and Essbase OLAP engine. This means that it’s not anything new, but rather existing technology repackaged into an appliance. Not necessarily a bad thing, because it means it should just work.
How does it compare to SAP HANA?
Compared to SAP HANA 1.0 SP02, Oracle Exalytics is almost exactly the same. It is a combination of Hardware and Software packaged into an appliance. The major difference is that Oracle build the whole stack so you can buy an Exalytics appliance directly from Oracle.
However it is only available in one size: 1TB, which is a strength and a weakness. First, SAP can sell anything from a 64GB license (with a minimum 128GB appliance), which at list price is less than
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