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 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."
"The product is easy to learn."
"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 initial setup is easy."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability."
"I don't need any special hardware. I can use commodity hardware, which is nice to have in a commercial solution."
"Vertica is a great product because customers can compress and code data. The infrastructure that data warehouse solutions need is a commodity server so that customers don't have to invest in infrastructure."
"I enjoy the cybersecurity and backup features."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"We are able to integrate our Vertica data warehouse with Tableau to create numerous reports quickly and efficiently."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"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."
"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."
"Performance of management of metadata layer (database catalog) needs improvement. We still have to have smaller customers on PostgreSQL; Vertica cannot manage thousands of schemata."
"The biggest problem is the cost of cloud deployment."
"Vertica's native cloud support could be improved, and its installation could be made easier."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"We are looking for a cheaper deployment for the solution. Although we did a lot of benchmarks, like Redshift. We tried Redshift, it didn't work. It didn't work out for us as well."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
"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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