We performed a comparison between SAP IQ and Snowflake Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The primary benefit of SAP IQ is its ability to limit the expansion of the costly SAP HANA database, which has limited storage capacity. This necessitates a form of data management that involves moving data from SAP HANA to SAP NLS, which is essentially archiving. This allows us to retain access to the data via a link whenever it is required."
"The product is easy to learn."
"Its performance speed is very good."
"The performance has been good."
"It's a scalable solution because you can analyze a huge amount of data in the solution."
"Snowflake Analytics' most valuable feature is its inbuilt infrastructure for executing queries, which I don't have to manage based on my data volume as it's taken care of by Snowflake."
"It's not necessary to use a physical server."
"I am impressed with the product's data-sharing feature."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake Analytics is the ability to control and manage the cost."
"Snowflake Analytics is pretty easy to use with the connectors for integration with the tools and systems in my company."
"Multiplex is very problematic. There are consistency problems in the metadata, meaning it is possible to lose metadata consistency. You should make sure you have healthy backups."
"The tool gets stuck sometimes."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"There is very little documentation available."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"A room for improvement in Snowflake Analytics is Spark, particularly its connector for Spark. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is built-in analytics."
"The platform's data governance space needs more capability."
"The platform could work easier for AI implementation compared to one of its competitors."
"Machine learning should be improved."
"Integration into different Python and Jupyter notebooks needs to be improved."
"The UI must be improved."
"If you have a lot of computations, it becomes very costly."
"The UI could be more user-friendly."
SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 19 reviews while Snowflake Analytics is ranked 6th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 31 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 7.8, while Snowflake Analytics is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake Analytics writes "A scalable tool useful for data lake and data mining processes". SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, SAP HANA, SAP BW4HANA and Apache Hadoop, whereas Snowflake Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude and Glassbox. See our SAP IQ vs. Snowflake Analytics report.
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