We performed a comparison between SAP IQ and Vertica 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."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."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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."
"The product is easy to learn."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"The Vertica architecture means it can process/ingest data in parallel to reporting and analyzing because of its in-memory Write-Optimized Storage sitting alongside the analytics optimized Read-Optimized Storage."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good."
"It has improved my organization's functionality and performance."
"Bulk loads, batch loads, and micro-batch loads have made it possible for our organization to process near real-time ingestions and faster analytics."
"We are able to integrate our Vertica data warehouse with Tableau to create numerous reports quickly and efficiently."
"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."
"The feature of the product that is most important is the speed. I needed a columnar database, and its speed is what it's built to do, and so that's what really does differentiate Vertica from its competitors."
"The solution is quick, has good compression data, and is not expensive."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"There is very little documentation available."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"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."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"The tool gets stuck sometimes."
"Vertica's native cloud support could be improved, and its installation could be made easier."
"Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
"We are looking for a cheaper deployment for the solution. Although we did a lot of benchmarks, like Redshift. We tried Redshift, it didn't work. It didn't work out for us as well."
"Vertica can improve automation and documentation. Additionally, the solution can be simplified."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"It's hard to make it slow for a small data volume. For large volumes, it's hard to make it work. It's also hard to make it faster, and to make it scale."
"Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly."
SAP IQ is ranked 17th in Data Warehouse with 19 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 7.8, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, SAP HANA, SAP BW4HANA and Apache Hadoop, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and BigQuery. See our SAP IQ vs. Vertica report.
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