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."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"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."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"The support from Microsoft has been good."
"The Always On tool improves the SQL server availability."
"As a data warehouse and storage solution, it's quite good."
"The product’s most valuable features are flexibility and scalability."
"Managing database is very good."
"The backups are excellent."
"Microsoft SQL Server is one of the better database administration software packages out there. It runs primarily on Windows Server platforms, but it can also run on Linux platforms."
"It is an extremely stable solution."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"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 room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"It would be nice if there was a feature to search for a specific value across multiple tables. This would save a lot of time for its users."
"The solution could offer better integration with other solutions - specifically Microsoft."
"For a big amount of data, when we are speaking about IoT Segments, and Big Data projects, there are performance issues."
"When we run into problems, it's usually during installation, and finding answers to the problem has been a nightmare because the documentation is terrible."
"The integration could be better. They are not open-source, so the integration with other platforms is not that easy."
"The price could be better. It costs a lot, and competing databases like Postgres are free."
"The treatment of database storage could be improved."
"Primarily, the data replication and the backup areas can be improved. It should have data replication capabilities and uptime capabilities."
SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 17 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 8.0, 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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