We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse 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."We have complete control over our data."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions."
"It performs very well overall."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"The solution has been reliable."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"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."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"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."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"I would like the tool to support different operating systems."
"The reporting for certain types of data needs to be improved."
"We find the cost of the solution to be a little high."
"If the database is large with a lot of columns then it is difficult to clean the data."
"Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution."
"I would like the ability to do more real-time type updates instead of batch-oriented updates."
"SQL installation is pretty tricky. The scalability and customer support also should be improved."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"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."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"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."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while SAP IQ is ranked 16th in Data Warehouse with 17 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while SAP IQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Greenplum, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SAP BW4HANA, SQL Server and Apache Hadoop. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. SAP IQ report.
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