SAS Viya

SAS Viya heavily relies on the proprietary SAS programming language, which may require significant training and adaptation for teams accustomed to other languages like Python or R.

As a commercial tool, SAS Viya incurs substantial licensing fees that can become prohibitively expensive as the number of users and data volume increase.

Being a proprietary solution, SAS Viya has limited contributions from an external developer community, resulting in fewer third-party plugins and less diverse integration options compared to open-source alternatives.

SAS Viya's reliance on its own file formats and tools can make it difficult and costly to migrate data and models to other platforms, creating a dependency on SAS for long-term analytics operations.

While cloud-native, SAS Viya may still experience performance degradation when handling extremely large datasets, especially if not properly optimized or scaled across multiple nodes.