We performed a comparison between SAP IQ and SQL Server 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."The initial setup is easy."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"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."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"The product is easy to learn."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"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."
"Very easy to use, and it's very democratic in the enterprise."
"SQL Server is similar to other Microsoft products, such as BI, they are easy to use. You do not need to have an expensive BD to maintain them. All the useful intuitive features you find in Microsoft solutions you will find in SQL Server."
"It is integrated with Microsoft tools."
"This solution has proven stability and operational power."
"SQL Server's most valuable features are that it is a large number of community resources to help you out. that's one, and then it is quite powerful."
"SQL Server's Management Studio is very user friendly. I like their database and the additional features it offers. It's also easy to integrate SQL Server with things like CLR, PowerShell, and command shell"
"It's much more friendly in comparison with Oracle."
"Technical support is very good."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"There is very little documentation available."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"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."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"The tool gets stuck sometimes."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"The pricing could be more affordable."
"The interface of the tool has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Additional interfaces would be an improvement."
"I would like to see better integration between their link server and other platforms, such as IBM."
"With so much data, things can get slow, which is why I would like to be able to understand how to better optimize queries."
"The configuration process can be a little complex."
"The solution is expensive. The licensing costs are high."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 19 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 7.8, while SQL Server 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 SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SAP BW4HANA, Apache Hadoop and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database. See our SAP IQ vs. SQL Server report.
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