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."It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"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."
"The product is easy to learn."
"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."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"The initial setup is easy."
"In Poland, SQL Server is the most popular database engine, and overall, our customers like it."
"As a data warehouse and storage solution, it's quite good."
"Very stable relational database management system that offers ease of management, querying, and scaling. It has well-designed databases."
"I like that the new version has a memory-optimized table to improve the performance."
"It is easy to manage for the administrator. It is also easy to use for applications that are Windows-based. It is a very stable product, and it has got backup and recovery tools."
"SQL Server is similar to other Microsoft products, such as BI, they are easy to use. You do not need to have an expensive BD to maintain them. All the useful intuitive features you find in Microsoft solutions you will find in SQL Server."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The interface is user friendly."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"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 tool gets stuck sometimes."
"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 solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"It would be nice if they can reduce its price."
"It is very costly, and that's the reason people are moving away from SQL Server."
"In terms of exceptionally large databases, it doesn't scale as well as Oracle."
"If you are a new user then this solution could be difficult, they could improve by making the overall usage easier."
"SQL Server could improve by being more user-friendly, it is still geared towards specialists. Additionally, the monitoring system is difficult to use, not everyone can use it well. The configuration should be able to be done through the GUI."
"They need to improve their support. It should be faster."
"I do not think SQL Server is suited for a typical database warehouse environment. However, people do use SQL Server for data warehouse environments but the best use case is for very small databases. If somebody wants to store more than 10 TB of data querying then the performance really degrades. The performance should be improved in the future to allow more scalability."
"I would like the SQL Server to be able to provide cloud support. We use the solution with a Korean provider supporting only MySQL rather than Microsoft SQL Server, which would be preferable and cheaper. This would prevent us from having to pay for troubleshooting and hosting the server."
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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