We performed a comparison between Oracle Database 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."Oracle Database is running on the same old hardware that I had the 11g version on and it is operating faster. It seems to be really good. It's fast even when the workload is heavy, easy to do backups and other administrative tasks with the Enterprise Manager."
"It is user-friendly. Its performance and security are also very good. There are 300 million records for our one-year data, and we can easily query this data. You can use Oracle Database as a source for easily integrating with different databases and applications. It supports Java platforms and other applications very well. It works with SAP products better than Microsoft SQL Server."
"One of the most valuable features is the stability."
"We use the relational databases for government contracts."
"The solution is scalable."
"The ease of use has been great."
"I have been satisfied with the technical support from Oracle."
"The stability has been good so far. It's reliable."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see more integration with other databases and the cloud as well as Microsoft's Office 365."
"The monitoring of processes that are executing could be better. I find it very difficult to find processes that had been in a suspended state in order to stop them."
"Oracle Database could improve by making migration less difficult and having better integration. For example, having the ability to communicate, using native features, to different databases. Mostly connectivity to different databases, such as open-source databases or any other database."
"Upgrade is the most critical phase for the lifecycle of a database. In order to be sure that the migration succeeds, you need to be up-to-date. Therefore, regularly install the patchset and security updates."
"Support is not available when one encounters problems."
"Once you start with Oracle you become locked into it."
"The connection can be slow due to the distance from the provider."
"Cloud installations using Oracle are not supported by SAP."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"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 room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
Oracle Database is ranked 2nd in Relational Databases Tools with 274 reviews while SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 17 reviews. Oracle Database is rated 8.6, while SAP IQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Database writes "Offers security features that are good, reliable, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". Oracle Database is most compared with SAP HANA, SQL Server, MariaDB, IBM Db2 Database and Amazon Aurora, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, SAP HANA, Apache Hadoop and SAP BW4HANA. See our Oracle Database vs. SAP IQ report.
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