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BigQuery vs SAP IQ comparison

Google and SAP are both solutions in the Cloud Data Warehouse category. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 84% of SAP users who would recommend it.
BigQuery
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100% willing to recommend
SAP IQ
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  • 264 Comparison Views
84% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between BigQuery and SAP IQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score
8.6
Organizations saved costs and improved performance with BigQuery, achieving significant returns despite an initial learning period.
Sentiment score
7.0
SAP IQ offers a high ROI with low implementation costs and significant hardware savings, despite some users not tracking exact returns.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
Google BigQuery support is generally reliable and agile but lacks direct engagement compared to competitors like Teradata.
Sentiment score
5.6
SAP IQ's service is mixed, with good global support but issues with expertise, staff shortages, and inefficient initial responses.
rating the customer support at ten points out of ten
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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
BigQuery excels in scalability and performance for large operations but may be costly for smaller businesses.
Sentiment score
7.4
SAP IQ excels in scalability, with easy expansion, though some multiplex architecture limitations are noted by users.
The scalability is definitely good because we are migrating to the cloud since the computers on the premises or the big database we need are no longer enough.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
BigQuery is praised for stability, reliability, and performance but has minor glitches with room for improvement in some areas.
Sentiment score
6.1
SAP IQ's stability has improved, handling high data volumes well, despite occasional issues in earlier versions under high load.
 

Room For Improvement

BigQuery's drawbacks include special character restrictions, high pricing, integration issues, and needed improvements in user interface and support.
SAP IQ needs better integration, stability, training, and affordability to overcome awareness and concurrency issues, enhancing user appeal.
Troubleshooting requires opening each pipeline individually, which is time-consuming.
In general, if I know SQL and start playing around, it will start making sense.
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Setup Cost

BigQuery's pricing is flexible, based on usage, with low storage costs, and customizable to enterprise needs within Google Cloud.
SAP IQ offers cost-effective licensing options and economical implementation, ideal for large databases needing partitioning and performance evaluation.
The price is perceived as expensive, rated at eight out of ten in terms of costliness.
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Valuable Features

BigQuery provides scalable, fast, cost-effective data analytics with seamless GCP integration and supports complex queries and various data types.
SAP IQ provides fast query processing, data compression, and scalability, ideal for BI with high data demands and user concurrency.
It is really fast because it can process millions of rows in just a matter of one or two seconds.
BigQuery processes a substantial amount of data, whether in gigabytes or terabytes, swiftly producing desired data within one or two minutes.
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Categories and Ranking

BigQuery
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (4th)
SAP IQ
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (26th), Data Warehouse (13th)
 

Featured Reviews

VikashKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to maintain and provides high availability
Since I used BigQuery over the GCP cloud environment, I'm not sure whether we can go through internal IDEAs like IntelliJ or DBeaver that we use to connect with databases. Instead of connecting directly to BigQuery, we connect to GCP, Cloud Run, and then to BigQuery, which is a long process. Sometimes, we face some issues, bugs, and defects. We must first connect with a VPN to check data issues while working from home. Then, it allows you to connect to the cloud. After logging into the cloud, it searches for the service we are looking for, and then we go to BigQuery. This is a long process. After that, we analyze the issues in a table. Instead, it would be very helpful if it could provide a tool that we can install on our MacBook or Windows system. Once we open this tool, we can connect directly to the BigQuery server and easily perform tasks.
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Tejas Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Columnar database, so pulling records is easy but there isn't enough documentation for installation
I've seen very few SAP IQ systems in recent years. So people are moving away from SAP IQ In the last three years, I've rarely encountered customers using it. Fewer systems with SAP IQ usage among our customers. Most of them have moved on to HANA. There are parallel products, and there are also viable alternatives from AWS, so many have migrated to those.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Retailer
8%
Financial Services Firm
45%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BigQuery?
The initial setup process is easy.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BigQuery?
The price is perceived as expensive, rated at eight out of ten in terms of costliness. Still, it offers significant cost savings.
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What needs improvement with BigQuery?
When I open many of the Google Cloud products, I am in an environment that I do not feel familiar with; it is a little overwhelming. In general, if I know SQL and start playing around, it will star...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP IQ?
IQ implementation costs about three thousand dollars. It's less expensive compared to alternatives like Teradata Base in terms of transactional efficiency.
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What needs improvement with SAP IQ?
The primary negative aspect is the cost, which can be a challenge due to the economic conditions in Peru.
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What is your primary use case for SAP IQ?
I worked on implementing new databases, migration data in production, and developer environments with SAP IQ.
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Also Known As

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Sybase IQ
 

Overview

BigQuery is an enterprise data warehouse that solves this problem by enabling super-fast SQL queries using the processing power of Google's infrastructure. ... You can control access to both the project and your data based on your business needs, such as giving others the ability to view or query your data.

Google

SAP® IQ software delivers speed and power for extreme-scale enterprise data warehousing and analytics. Its column-oriented, grid-based massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and patented data compression and indexing technologies enable companies to exploit the value of huge amounts of data at the speed of business.

SAP
 

Sample Customers

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ASR Group, Citrix, State of Indiana, PocketCard Co. Ltd.
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