We performed a comparison between Amazon Redshift and SAP IQ 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."The solution's flexibility is its most valuable feature. It's also easy to scale and has relatively painless pricing."
"Redshift COPY command, because much of my work involved helping customers migrate large amounts of data into Redshift."
"The solution has very competitive pricing."
"Redshift Spectrum is the most valuable feature."
"I found the Amazon Redshift computing services easy. I found the computing instances the most incredible in the solution."
"The feature that we find most useful is the ability to do analytics on the fly."
"Redshift's versioning and data security are the two most critical features. When migrating into the cloud, it's vital to secure the data. The encryption and security are there."
"Amazon Redshift is very fast. It has really good response times. It's very user-friendly."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"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."
"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 speed of the solution and its portability needs improvement."
"Redshift's GUI could be more user-friendly. It's easier to perform queries and all that stuff in Azure Synapse Analytics."
"Amazon Redshift does not have the capability to dynamically increase the VM file."
"One area where Amazon Redshift could improve is in adopting the compute-separate, data-separate architecture, which Delta, Snowflake are adopting, and a few others in the cloud data warehouse spectrum."
"Compatibility with other products, for example, Microsoft and Google, is a bit difficult because each one of them wants to be isolated with their solutions."
"The solution could improve in handling more data formats and more native support for RDF."
"There are too many limitations with respect to concurrency."
"Amazon should provide more cloud-native tools that can integrate with Redshift like Microsoft's development tools for Azure."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"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."
Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 58 reviews while SAP IQ is ranked 16th in Data Warehouse with 17 reviews. Amazon Redshift is rated 7.8, while SAP IQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Redshift writes "Provides one place where we can store data, and allows us to easily connect to other services with AWS". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". Amazon Redshift is most compared with AWS Lake Formation, Snowflake, Teradata, Vertica and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SQL Server, SAP BW4HANA and Apache Hadoop. See our Amazon Redshift vs. SAP IQ report.
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