We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and SAP IQ 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 ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"Before using this machine, we took no less than two days to run a report. Now, we can do it within five hours. So, there is a lot of improvement."
"The tool's performance is good."
"Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the storage available."
"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."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"We have a little trepidation with the system as it does have a learning curve. Also changing to a binary logging format for us feels like retrograde motion, but sadly almost all Linux variants have moved in this direction."
"It would be good if Exadata made some new features available regarding data retrieval and speed capacity functions."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata is that it's not very easy to use in a microservices environment. It's not easy to split databases, and if this was easier to do in Oracle Exadata, it would make the solution better. What I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Exadata is for it to become more modular, so you can use it in a context where the data layer is spread between many independent services."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"Patching must be simplified."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"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 solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while SAP IQ is ranked 16th in Data Warehouse with 17 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while SAP IQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SQL Server, SAP BW4HANA and Apache Hadoop. See our Oracle Exadata vs. SAP IQ report.
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