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."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."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"The product is easy to learn."
"What we found most valuable in Snowflake Analytics are its attributes that are very convenient for business use such as data sharing, cloning, time travel, and fail-safe. It's a good product all in all."
"Snowflake Analytics' most valuable feature is its inbuilt infrastructure for executing queries, which I don't have to manage based on my data volume as it's taken care of by Snowflake."
"Deployment is straightforward as it's a SaaS product. No maintenance required."
"Considering everything I have accessed, the product's dashboard is good since it provides multiple good options, including customization options."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake Analytics is its performance."
"The solution auto-scales and it provides concurrency."
"I am impressed with the product's data-sharing feature."
"The most valuable features of Snowflake for our data analytics are its time travel capability, allowing easy data recovery, and its automatic optimization of partitioning and clustering."
"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."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"The tool gets stuck sometimes."
"There is very little documentation available."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"Implementing everything on-premise is challenging because it require proper support from advisors, DBAs, and others."
"Machine learning in Snowflake isn't as advanced as in other products. I haven't heard of any successful industry-wide use cases of machine learning implemented in Snowflake. It might take a couple of years to reach the same level as Databricks."
"Snowflake should include a WHERE clause for building data pipelines."
"There are issues while loading data from Snowflake Analytics to the Power BI reporting."
"I cannot comment on the product's stability because we are still struggling with its performance."
"One area that could benefit from enhancement is the user interface for more visual ESM features."
"We haven't seen any areas that are lacking."
"The distribution methodology isn't as strong as Bethesda or SAP HANA. It's not as strong as other competitors."
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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