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."Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time."
"Collecting the data through SSIS packages from different sources and putting them all in one data repository is the most powerful thing. While others have this feature, they don't have the simplicity or ease of use when getting a resource and knowing everything about it."
"The most valuable feature for me is querying."
"The most valuable feature is the business intelligence (BI) part of it."
"Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"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."
"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."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"This solution would be improved with an option for in-memory data analysis."
"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."
"Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"It could be made more user-friendly for business users which would increase the user base."
"The product must provide more frequent updates."
"The query is slow if we don't optimize it."
"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."
"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."
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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, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SQL Server, SAP BW4HANA and Apache Hadoop. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. SAP IQ report.
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