Oracle Database vs. SAP IQ Comparison

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Kevin Slack

Database Analyst at Talbots

Good performance, stability, and scalability, but the documentation needs to be improved

This solution was great for a while until Oracle became adversarial with its customers and the professionals who support their products.

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Pros
"It is a reliable database warehouse solution that is transparent to the end user.""The performance of the solution is impeccable.""The solution has very robust integrity due to how it is designed and implemented.""On-prem, Oracle is the number one database technology.""The feature that I worked with and that excited me the most is one that is not available in other databases, and it involves the use of Java Runtime.""From a database product perspective, I would say, they're good in what they provide. There's not much concern.""The reliability is the solution's most valuable feature. We've had great success with the solution.""We find technical support to be very responsive. They briefly describe everything on phone and we handle the operations. I'd say we've been more than satisfied with their level of service. They're quite helpful and knowledgeable." More Oracle Database Pros »	"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database." More SAP IQ Pros »
Cons
"The pricing is the one sticking point for the solution because it is very expensive.""While working with 20-30 terabytes is okay using this solution, if you have Big Data, data that's much bigger than that, you will run into issues. It's a problem I have right now. They should support much more data.""The solution can be quite expensive for small and medium-sized enterprises. Not too many companies can actually afford the pricing.""Oracle needs to improve its cluster technologies. They need to improve in the cluster technology using ARC due to the fact that sometimes people think that they have a redundant server when they are using ARC with the cluster and think that will increase the performance. In reality, if they are using ii with a big workload, sometimes the performance is not increasing, and can sometimes actually impacts it in such a way that there's some degradation in the performance.""The integration with other vendor solutions needs improvement. It is difficult to connect to other hardware.""If their database encryption features could come in bytes, that would be a major improvement. They should bring the encryption model to their standard databases as well.""The main thing we find could use improvement is the licensing costs. It is quite expensive relative to other database vendors. Cost always comes up as an issue for us as we consider upgrade paths. It's not as easy as we would like it to be.""We don't really find that any features are lacking." More Oracle Database Cons »	"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future." More SAP IQ Cons »

Pricing and Cost Advice
"The pricing is something that Oracle should work on to make the product more affordable, especially to businesses in third-world countries.""Our licensing costs are between $40,000 and $50,000 per year. Those are the costs that cover maintenance and licensing.""It is an excellent product, as long as the organization can afford the price tag." More Oracle Database Pricing and Cost Advice »	"The only costs after standard licensing fees are for add-ons and upgrades." More SAP IQ Pricing and Cost Advice »

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Questions from the Community
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Oracle 12c, RDBMS	Sybase IQ
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Overview
Oracle Database 12c introduces a new multitenant architecture that makes it easy to consolidate many databases quickly and manage them as a cloud service. Oracle Database 12c also includes in-memory data processing capabilities for breakthrough analytical performance. Additional database innovations deliver new levels of efficiency, performance, security, and availability. Oracle Database 12c comes in two editions to fit your business needs and budget: Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2. For more information on Oracle RDBMS, visit Oracle.com	SAP® IQ software delivers speed and power for extreme-scale enterprise data warehousing and analytics. Its column-oriented, grid-based massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and patented data compression and indexing technologies enable companies to exploit the value of huge amounts of data at the speed of business.
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Sample Customers
Agncia Nacional de guas, Anbima, Aria Systems, Asiana Airlines, Astelit LLC, Australian Finance Group, Banco Occidental de Descuento, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, BT, Caja de Seguros S.A., Casas GEO S.A.B. de C.V., Comic Relief UK, Corsair Components Inc., CSAM Health AS, CSOB Group, Datacraft Solutions, DenizBank A.S., Department of Treasury and Finance WA, Office of State Revenue, Deutsche B_rse AG, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Deutsche Messe AG, Digicel Haiti, DPR COSEA, Essar Group, Essatto Software Pty Ltd, Farmšcia e Drogaria Nissei Ltda., Fomento Econ‹mico Mexicano S.A.B. de C.V. (FEMSA), FundaÊo Petrobras de Seguridade Social, Future Group, GFKL Financial Services AG, Grupo Posadas S.A.B. de C.V., Grupo Sinosserra, Guerra S.A. Implementos Rodovišrios, Hanatour International Service, Hays plc, Henan Mobile Co. Ltd, Hochschule Hof, Hong Kong and China Technology (Wuhan) Co. Ltd (Towngas Technology), Industries Corpa_al C.A., Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatstica, Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial, Kcell, LinkShare Corporation, MercadoLibre Inc., MetLife Inc., Nextgen Distribution, €BB-IKT GmbH, Octagon Research Solutions, Pacific Lutheran University, Paragon Data GmbH, Ping ltd., PJSC Trustbank, Prodaub _ Processamento de Dados de Uberl_ndia, Purdue University, Redknee Inc., Robi Axiata Limited, Shanghai Infoservice Technology Co. Ltd, Shanghai Sihua Technologies Co. Ltd, Sistema de Aguas de la Ciudad de M_xico, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Suddenlink Communications, Suprajit Engineering Limited, Tallink Grupp, Terminales Ro de la Plata S.A., Therap Services LLC, Think Passenger Inc., Trafigura, Transmed S.A.L Lebanon, ValeShop, VelQuest Corporation, Vodafone Group plc, West Virginia Network, WIND Hellas Telecommunications S.A	ASR Group, Citrix, State of Indiana, PocketCard Co. Ltd.
Top Industries
REVIEWERS Financial Services Firm15% Computer Software Company11% Government10% Comms Service Provider7% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company45% Comms Service Provider13% Government7% K 12 Educational Company Or School6%	REVIEWERS Financial Services Firm67% Healthcare Company11% Insurance Company11% Marketing Services Firm11% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company50% Comms Service Provider14% Government9% Retailer6%

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