We performed a comparison between SAP IQ and Teradata 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."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."
"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."
"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."
"Teradata's best feature is its speed with historical data."
"Designing the database is easy."
"The key advantages are Performance when processing Terabytes of data and scalability."
"It's a pre-configured appliance that requires very little in terms of setting-up."
"Teradata features high productivity and reliability because it has several redundancy options, so the system is always up and running."
"Teradata solutions help organizations reduce IT, operations, and maintenance costs; enhance on-time delivery of products and services."
"The most valuable features are the Shared-nothing architecture and data protection functionality."
"Viewpoint, the detailed query logs and performance statistics are valuable features."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"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."
"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."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"Sometimes the large injestion takes days to load data, and some of our stored procedures take two to three days."
"Teradata hardly supports unstructured data or semi-structured data"
"GUI of administrative tools is really outdated."
"Teradata's pricing is quite high compared to Redshift, Synapse, or GCP alternatives."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"Query language and its functionality are rather limited, compared to Oracle or even SQL Server. However, it is possible to perform any kind of logic in it (though some workarounds may be required)."
"The solution is stable. However, there are times when we are using large amounts of data and we can see some latency issues."
"I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web."
SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 2 reviews while Teradata is ranked 7th in Relational Databases Tools with 21 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 8.0, while Teradata 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 Teradata writes "Very fast with good database control and excellent support". SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, SAP HANA, Apache Hadoop and SAP BW4HANA, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, Oracle Exadata and BigQuery. See our SAP IQ vs. Teradata report.
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