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."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."
"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."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"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."
"The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple."
"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"I like the projection feature, which increases query performance."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"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."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"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."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"The biggest problem is the cost of cloud deployment."
"In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
"Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly."
"I believe the installation process could be streamlined."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be."
SAP IQ is ranked 16th in Data Warehouse with 17 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 8.0, 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, SAP HANA, SQL Server and SAP BW4HANA, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata. See our SAP IQ vs. Vertica report.
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