How Accurate Was SAP in Calling All Non-HANA DB’s Legacy?

ByShaun Snapp

Executive Summary

  • What SAP said about all non-HANA DB’s legacy.
  • The truth about all non-HANA DB’s legacy?

What SAP Said About All Non-HANA DB’s Legacy

SAP has repeatedly stated that all non-HANA databases that compete with HANA are legacy.

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The Truth About All Non-HANA DB’s Legacy?

As we covered in the article How Accurate is SAP in Calling Non-HANA DBs Legacy?, we explained that the databases that SAP calls legacy are more successful than HANA, and all the evidence indicates that they perform better than HANA. SAP is comingling the fact that these databases preceded HANA with these databases being legacy. All of these databases have massive customer bases and are perpetually kept up to date.

Conclusion and Calculation

SAP receives a 0% accuracy rating for all non-HANA DB being legacy.

Link to the Parent Article

This is one of many research articles on a specific topic that supports a larger research calculation. For the overview of the research calculation for all of the SAP topics that were part of the study, see the following primary research A Study into SAP’s Accuracy.