We performed a comparison between MySQL and SAP IQ 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."I would use MySQL for a medium project, with around 1,00,000 hundred thousand users, because of the indexing and stored procedures."
"This is a lightweight product that is not demanding on the resources, which is what I think gives it the edge."
"The solution is easy to use."
"What I really like about MySQL is the opportunity to search for information and organize it any way I like."
"Like other databases, it has a rich set of functions, such as stored procedures and its own procedural language, which is akin to Oracle SQL. It also has trigger and cursor commands you would expect with a good database language."
"The most valuable feature of MySQL is its reliability and performance."
"MySQL gives us all of the critical features that we need in a database, but without the costs."
"It has a remote access feature to manage the database from a remote location. This enables in-work collaboration."
"The product is easy to learn."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"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 initial setup is easy."
"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"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."
"If it had something similar to Microsoft’s DTS engine then it would be the best database system out there."
"MySQL needs improvements on its diagnostic features."
"Even for the best database, we always want the database to perform much better, so we wish MySQL would be much better, in terms of performance."
"Security is a concern. MySQL could have better security features."
"The performance, stability, and security are areas with shortcomings in MySQL, where improvements are required."
"When it comes to supporting big data, there is space to improve upon the database engines that are supported by MySQL."
"The user interface could be more user friendly. Mainly because most of the times we see black and white digital lines. Something like Python."
"I would like to have the ability to cancel a query in SQL Developer."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"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 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 tool gets stuck sometimes."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 142 reviews while SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 19 reviews. MySQL is rated 8.2, while SAP IQ is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Teradata and SAP HANA, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, SAP HANA, SAP BW4HANA and Apache Hadoop. See our MySQL vs. SAP IQ report.
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