We performed a comparison between SAP IQ and Snowflake Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse 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."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"The product is easy to learn."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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."
"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."
"It can run complex workloads with varied compute."
"One of the key advancements in Snowflake Analytics is data sharing."
"It ensures the optimization of the application development while maintaining the user-friendly nature of its UI."
"The Snowflake features I find most beneficial for data analysis are primarily related to analytics, particularly their features like materialized views and queues, which are especially useful for dashboarding purposes."
"The advanced features like time travel, zero copy cloning and scalability have been most useful. Snowflake requires zero maintenance for Data Warehousing on the cloud system."
"Very good flexibility and it offers computation completely decoupled from the storage."
"It's not necessary to use a physical server."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake Analytics is the ability to control and manage the cost."
"The tool gets stuck sometimes."
"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."
"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."
"There is very little documentation available."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"One area that could benefit from enhancement is the user interface for more visual ESM features."
"The platform's data governance space needs more capability."
"The tool should support EIM use cases. I guess the product is already working on it. I look forward to seeing inbuilt AI generative tools in the solution's future releases. The tool's price can be a little lower. The solution's on-premises support is also very limited. We have to rely on other support services to deploy it on-premises."
"Snowflake Analytics can improve the integration with machine learning tools and AI and it will make the solution more usable."
"Integration into different Python and Jupyter notebooks needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to consider including some updates in the future."
"The product's cost is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Machine learning should be improved."
SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 19 reviews while Snowflake Analytics is ranked 6th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 31 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 7.8, while Snowflake Analytics 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 Snowflake Analytics writes "A scalable tool useful for data lake and data mining processes". SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SQL Server, SAP BW4HANA and Apache Hadoop, whereas Snowflake Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude and Glassbox. See our SAP IQ vs. Snowflake Analytics report.
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