SAP IQ vs Snowflake Analytics comparison

SAP and Snowflake Computing are both solutions in the Cloud Data Warehouse category. Additionally, 80% of SAP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Snowflake Computing users who would recommend it.

SAP IQ

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80% willing to recommend

Snowflake Analytics

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between SAP IQ and Snowflake Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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SAP IQ vs. Snowflake Analytics

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.2

SAP IQ boasts high ROI with substantial hardware savings, low maintenance costs, though some users lack authorization to confirm it.

Sentiment score

5.3

Snowflake Analytics improves efficiency and cost management, though ROI varies; users often see notable time and cost savings.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.6

Customer service is 24/7 but varies in quality; technical support lacks experts, causing slow escalation and limited advanced assistance.

Sentiment score

6.9

Snowflake Analytics support is praised for responsiveness and professionalism but criticized for occasional delays and access issues.

It seems very difficult to get proper advanced assistance on advanced or complicated problems.

Reviewer302462

Tech Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The quality of support from SAP is very good; if it's a known problem, they will have a knowledge base, so we will get immediate assistance.

Akhilesh Narayanan

Tech Lead, Database Section. at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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The Snowflake Analytics documentation is excellent.

reviewer2729628

Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Recently we had a two-day session where the Snowflake Analytics team provided a demo on Cortex AI and its features.

Garima Goel

Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro

The technical support for Snowflake Analytics is excellent based on what I have heard from others.

Paresh_Nayak

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.4

SAP IQ offers scalable solutions with Simplex and Multiplex architectures, accommodating vast data volumes across PCs or servers.

Sentiment score

7.7

Snowflake Analytics offers scalable cloud infrastructure, automatic resource management, and seamless data handling with strong performance for large data volumes.

SAP IQ is actually quite effective when it comes to scalability.

Reviewer302462

Tech Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We can span the read and write load into multiple nodes, and that scalability is there.

Akhilesh Narayanan

Tech Lead, Database Section. at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Storage is unlimited because they use S3 if it is AWS, so storage has no limit.

KamleshPant

Senior Software Architect at USEReady

It supports both horizontal and vertical scaling effectively.

Paresh_Nayak

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Maintaining security and data governance becomes easier with an entire data lake in place, and the scalability improves performance.

Garima Goel

Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

6.0

SAP IQ is stable, effectively managing complex transactions despite occasional issues, making it a reliable choice for implementations.

Sentiment score

8.4

Snowflake Analytics is highly rated for its stability and reliability, offering minimal issues and excellent cloud support performance.

It's usually something external, such as lack of disk space or problems arising from the integration to other systems.

Reviewer302462

Tech Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Snowflake Analytics has been stable and reliable in my experience.

Garima Goel

Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro

Snowflake Analytics is stable, scoring around eight point five to nine out of ten.

Paresh_Nayak

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The Power BI team raised tickets for both Power BI and Snowflake Analytics, and their responses were very good.

reviewer2729628

Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

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Room For Improvement

SAP IQ faces challenges with high costs, inadequate training, stability issues, and integration limitations, impacting performance and adoption.

Snowflake Analytics requires better orchestration, integration, Python support, price transparency, data exports, and enhanced machine learning and performance features.

When there is an issue, the error messaging we get is not always sufficient to do a fast and solid fix.

Reviewer302462

Tech Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is easy to deploy SAP IQ; the implementation and installation are easy.

Akhilesh Narayanan

Tech Lead, Database Section. at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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AIML-based SQL prompt and query generation could be an area for enhancement.

KamleshPant

Senior Software Architect at USEReady

If it offered flexibility similar to Oracle and supported more heterogeneous data sources and database connectivity, it would be even better.

Paresh_Nayak

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would prefer Snowflake Analytics to improve their support response times, as sometimes the responses we receive are not very prompt and ticket assignments may not be timely.

Garima Goel

Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro

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Setup Cost

SAP IQ is cost-effective with various licensing models, though price understanding and negotiation are essential for optimal implementation.

Snowflake Analytics provides flexible pricing, balancing usability with cost, offering competitive rates and value through its decoupled storage and compute.

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Snowflake charges per query, which amounts to a very minor cost, such as $0.015 per query.

AyindeHammed

BI Developer at DivVerse LLC

Snowflake is better and cheaper than Redshift and other cloud warehousing systems.

KamleshPant

Senior Software Architect at USEReady

Snowflake Analytics is quite economical.

Paresh_Nayak

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Valuable Features

SAP IQ features column-based architecture, high compression, rapid queries, large-scale data handling, and integration with SAP BusinessObjects.

Snowflake Analytics offers efficient, scalable data management with strong security, cloud flexibility, and advanced features for seamless data integration.

The feature I appreciate the most about SAP IQ is the compression, which is very good; we cannot compare with any other type of EDW.

Akhilesh Narayanan

Tech Lead, Database Section. at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of SAP IQ for us is that it works very effectively with the SAP BusinessObjects which we use it with.

Reviewer302462

Tech Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Running a considerable query on Microsoft SQL Server may take up to thirty minutes or an hour, while Snowflake executes the same query in less than three minutes.

AyindeHammed

BI Developer at DivVerse LLC

Snowflake Analytics supports data security with a single sign-on feature and complies with framework regulations, which is highly beneficial.

Paresh_Nayak

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is a data offering where I can see data lineage, data governance, and data security.

KamleshPant

Senior Software Architect at USEReady

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Categories and Ranking

SAP IQ

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (24th), Data Warehouse (15th)

Snowflake Analytics

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Analytics (2nd), Cloud Data Warehouse (10th)

Featured Reviews

Reviewer302462

Tech Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Works well with existing platform integration but could improve error messaging and technical support

I do not use SAP IQ's machine learning capabilities. I cannot assess the benefit of SAP IQ's distributed query processing for complex queries, as I am a non-technical operator. I am not sure if we use SAP IQ's data compression features. I think the compression we are doing is on the data storage level and not on the database level. I believe we do not use it, but I'm not certain. We do not utilize SAP IQ's support for unstructured data, as we do not have unstructured data. I do not have any strong opinions on SAP IQ's security features such as data encryption. It's not been something that has been much in focus, neither in our choice of the platform, nor in our daily operations. I guess they're satisfactory as they have not been a problem. I am not aware of the pricing and licensing of SAP IQ, as it's part of a bigger agreement, and I'm not the owner of that agreement. My impression is that SAP IQ is a rather expensive tool in terms of value for money. On a scale of 1-10, I rate SAP IQ a 7.

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Garima Goel

Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro

Have created secure cloud-based data lakes and improved real-time data processing using integrated AI features

There are many capabilities which Snowflake Analytics offers that I find valuable, such as the storage and compute engine that allows working with any cloud system such as AWS or Azure, alongside its efficiencies in storage computation and cost-effectiveness, which saves money compared to on-premise systems. We also have features such as pre-cached results, Time Travel, and fail-safe, which are very useful for restoring data if deleted accidentally, and the streams and data pipes that facilitate real-time ingestion are great features as well. Snowflake Analytics offers multiple new connectors, allowing me to connect it with Kafka, and with Snowpark, I can work with any programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala for data processing and analysis. The data sharing feature offered by Snowflake Analytics is good because it allows sharing specific sets of data to end customers or users from different Snowflake Analytics accounts without exposing the entire dataset for data security reasons. Snowflake Analytics' support for machine learning models and real-time insights has enhanced significantly. Originally, it wasn't strong in AI/ML, but now it has multiple models and forecasting capabilities, providing good competition to tools such as Databricks and Spark. In BI, I have worked majorly with Microsoft Power BI, and the integration with Snowflake Analytics is very easy. The way we integrate Snowflake Analytics with other on-premise systems just requires the warehouse details, username, passwords, and the account name, along with multiple options such as client ID and credentials for logging in and creating a session. The end-to-end encryption provided by Snowflake Analytics is very important because, in my previous firm, working in finance and investment management, data encryption is necessary due to the sensitive nature of customer data and the involvement of people's money. It's crucial to have encryption in transit and at rest, along with data masking features which Snowflake Analytics offers.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

36%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	16

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP IQ?

IQ implementation costs about three thousand dollars. It's less expensive compared to alternatives like Teradata Base in terms of transactional efficiency.

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What needs improvement with SAP IQ?

When it comes to SAP IQ, the areas that could be improved or enhanced include the error messaging and the locking capabilities, as that's where we often encounter problems. When there is an issue, ...

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What is your primary use case for SAP IQ?

Our usual use cases for SAP IQ is that we have a Software-as-a-Service architecture where this database is the foundation for our SAP BusinessObjects platform. This is where it's getting its data f...

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What do you like most about Snowflake Analytics?

Its performance speed is very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake Analytics?

Snowflake Analytics is quite economical. It does not appear to incur significant extra expenses beyond the solution's initial cost. However, a complete pricing analysis is still in progress.

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What needs improvement with Snowflake Analytics?

I do not see any areas that could be improved with Snowflake Analytics.

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Also Known As

Sybase IQ

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Overview

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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Conventional data platforms and big data solutions struggle to deliver on their fundamental purpose: to enable any user to work with any data, without limits on scale, performance or flexibility. Whether you’re a data analyst, data scientist, data engineer, or any other business or technology professional, you’ll get more from your data with Snowflake.

To achieve this, we built a new data platform from the ground up for the cloud. It’s designed with a patented new architecture to be the centerpiece for data pipelines, data warehousing, data lakes, data application development, and for building data exchanges to easily and securely share governed data. The result, A platform delivered as a service that’s powerful but simple to use.

Snowflake’s cloud data platform supports a multi-cloud strategy, including a cross-cloud approach to mix and match clouds as you see fit. Snowflake delivers advantages such as global data replication, which means you can move your data to any cloud in any region, without having to re-code your applications or learn new skills.

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Sample Customers

ASR Group, Citrix, State of Indiana, PocketCard Co. Ltd.

Lionsgate, Adobe, Sony, Capital One, Akamai, Deliveroo, Snagajob, Logitech, University of Notre Dame, Runkeeper

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