We performed a comparison between SAP IQ and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse 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."
"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."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"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 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."
"Vertica gives knowledgeable users and DBAs excellent tools for tuning."
"Partition and join back to node are easy and simple for DBAs."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"The hardware usage and speed has been the most valuable feature of this solution. It is very fast and has saved us a lot of money."
"I enjoy the cybersecurity and backup features."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"The feature I like best is performance. We use Red Tool and Red Job for the data warehouse and reporting. It's perfect. Performance is good, and it can return ad hoc queries very quickly. Of course, it's a cluster, so it's easy to scale."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"The tool gets stuck sometimes."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"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 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."
"Vertica's native cloud support could be improved, and its installation could be made easier."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"It's hard to make it slow for a small data volume. For large volumes, it's hard to make it work. It's also hard to make it faster, and to make it scale."
"I believe the installation process could be streamlined."
"One feature, which has really benefited us, is the scalability offered by Vertica as it has enabled Pythian's clients to manage data with agility."
"Vertica offers a platform-as-a-service version, but their software-as-a-service solution is only available on AWS. They need to get a SaaS version on Azure and GCP as fast as possible."
"The integration with AI has room for improvement."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
SAP IQ is ranked 17th in Data Warehouse with 19 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 7.8, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, SAP HANA and SAP BW4HANA, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and BigQuery. See our SAP IQ vs. Vertica report.
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