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… allow fair competition against Oracle or other databases because SAP knows it will lose. SAP is both the gunfighter in this scenario and the entity supervising the gunfight, as it is the certifying entity. SAP also has the power to block any database provider from publishing any benchmark under the partnership agreement. 
The Fastest Database in the West (HANA vs. Oracle)?
Evidence is building that HANA is not the speed champion that SAP says it is. One of the primary performance weaknesses of HANA is very rarely addressed. As a column-based database, HANA is not the correct database design …

… Multicloud Announcement.
Furthermore, the most knowledgeable resources on the cloud, PaaS, IaaS, etc., would tend to work at AWS as they have a much more significant business in the cloud than SAP, and they are the clear industry leaders.
Transition to SAP S/4HANA?

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That is curious. Almost no SAP consulting partners have any experience with S/4HANA …

… cut through the hyperbole on HANA and provide a basis for analyzing SAP HANA statements.
However, this is, of course, only one dimension of understanding SAP HANA. None of the consulting companies will touch this issue and have served primarily as sales arms of SAP since — well, since they started partnering with SAP. The vast majority of analysts either have a conflict of interest in bringing this up, don’t understand databases well enough to know what part of the SAP HANA story is real and what part is smoke. One perfect example of this inaccuracy that flows through the …