We performed a comparison between SAP IQ and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is easy to learn."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"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 column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is that it is easy to code."
"The management studio is probably the thing we use the most for running quick queries and creating quick reports. Quite often, somebody comes and says, "Hey, can you find XYZ?" It is so much easier just to jump in there and run a quick query."
"It is stable, and it works okay."
"The pricing of the product is very good."
"Features like autoscaling, business continuity, and security are beneficial. The tool's compatibility with almost all of the enterprise-class applications is also beneficial for users."
"The features that we have found the most valuable are reliability, availability perspective, and current scalability."
"It is quite reliable in cluster configurations and has helped me to reduce downtime and improve SLAs."
"The most valuable features are programmability and reliability."
"The tool gets stuck sometimes."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"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."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"There is very little documentation available."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"The solution's stability can be improved."
"I have experience working with SQL Server 2016 and older versions, including handling JSON data. Initially, I found the JSON capabilities to be less helpful, but over time, they have greatly improved. SQL Server now offers extensive capabilities for working with various forms of data, particularly when communicating with text, such as in JSON format. I particularly prefer working with these features on Azure, as it provides numerous possibilities, especially in the field of business intelligence (BI). Additionally, the serverless platform offered by Azure is highly beneficial and makes tasks easier to manage."
"It would be better if it had more integration with other systems."
"The interface of the tool has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The performance needs some improvement and it needs more features integrated into it."
"The performance could improve."
"The configuration process can be a little complex."
"The solution could improve by having more integration with other operating systems and other platforms."
SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 19 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 7.8, while SQL Server 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 SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SAP BW4HANA, Apache Hadoop and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database. See our SAP IQ vs. SQL Server report.
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