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."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."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"The product is easy to learn."
"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 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."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The fast columnar store database structure allows our query times to be at least 10x faster than on any other database."
"Vertica is a columnar database where the query performance is extremely fast and it can be used for real-time integrations for API and other applications. The solution requires zero maintenance which is helpful."
"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."
"We are also opening new areas of business and potential new revenue streams using Vertica's analytic functions, most notably geospatial, where we are able to run billions of comparisons of lat/long point locations against polygon and point/radius locations in seconds. "
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"I enjoy the cybersecurity and backup features."
"DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"The tool gets stuck sometimes."
"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."
"There is very little documentation available."
"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 integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"Whatever's out, the core is not always as great as the engine, especially their first version."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I believe the installation process could be streamlined."
"They could improve the integration and some of the features in the cloud version."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
SAP IQ is ranked 17th in Data Warehouse with 19 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 7.8, 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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