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Heavy.AI vs SAP IQ comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

Heavy.AI
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
27th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP IQ
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
25th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (15th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Heavy.AI is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP IQ is 2.4%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SAP IQ2.4%
Heavy.AI0.8%
Other96.8%
Relational Databases Tools
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2886843 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Cloud Gb Strat High Technology Enterprise Account Executive at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Interactive analytics has revealed territory gaps and now needs simpler, more conversational guidance
I think whenever you're using these tools, you want it to be as conversational as possible, and I think more of that would be helpful for Heavy.AI. Allowing you to ask questions on how to do things inside of Heavy.AI and have it actually show you how to do it as you're doing it would be beneficial. That way you don't have to spend a lot of time trying things out through trial and error. Trial and error can be helpful because you're learning it that way, but at the same time, when you're just trying to do things quickly and you're not a professional or a user that uses it all the time, you might not have that. So you want to be able to get that information quickly and easily. Some aspects I didn't like, but some of it's just like, "of course not." I wish I could snap my fingers and have everything be perfect, but that's not realistic. The infrastructure is probably fairly expensive. I can't afford to do that. I would need my business, the company that I work for to do it for us. Otherwise I can't really do it. It's just expensive. I did feel that it was pretty easy to use, but I'm a little bit more experienced than the average person, so maybe someone less technical like my colleagues would struggle initially to figure it out. I think maybe enhancing the user-friendliness for people that are not coders, just kind of setting up the workflows and things so it's just easier would help. It seems to be more purpose-built for spatial stuff, for location plus time and things, but general purpose BI is kind of an important thing. I don't think people were actually taking advantage of that, and when they're not doing that, it creates a little bit of trouble.
KK
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Heavy.AI has helped reduce handling times and improved agent performance significantly."
"We did see a saving of time and cost because we had a one-stop shop where we could access GPU utilization along with plotting of geographical data."
"Heavy.AI being able to do these things without having that background was powerful for me."
"While queries with previous products could run for hours, with SAP IQ, they run in a matter of minutes or seconds."
"But I do not think that other products really have an advantage for warehousing over the SAP IQ solution."
"Sybase IQ is a column based database, used for business intelligence, data warehousing, and data marts."
"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"SAP IQ is actually quite effective when it comes to scalability; we have a setup that's built with multiple servers involved and that seems to be working fairly efficiently, and if we wanted to add more servers into this entire setup, that would be fairly easy."
"IQ is a very high-performance and high-transaction database."
"IQ has enabled our company to load data from our data vendors in under one hour and eliminated multiple copies and hours of processing time."
 

Cons

"Heavy.AI can be improved in agility to connect with multiple verticals, which is the first area, and the second is to analyze the business processes to prepare solutions for many verticals, as we approach this on a vertical basis."
"My experience with that was expensive to do for myself, so I had to get the company to sort of allow me to do it for Heavy.AI."
"Heavy.AI can be improved since it is a very large and comprehensive tool. For someone who does not have expertise in the tool, they will struggle somewhat, so I think it could be made easier for people."
"Technical Support: 6/10 because at the time I was using it, Sybase Turkey were short on staff and not very experienced."
"Very few people are familiar with this technology, as training programs are very expensive."
"With various patches of v15.4 and v16.0, we had instances where the IQ server crashed under certain circumstances."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"There could be more documentation and training."
"Customer Service: It has been good, but more can be done in this area."
"There is very little documentation available."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"Negotiation is very important."
"Evaluate all options; check to see if you need expensive add-ons."
"The cost of implementation is about $3,000."
"It's not that costly. So, the pricing is cheap."
"Negotiate based on the features required."
"The only costs after standard licensing fees are for add-ons and upgrades."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
27%
Insurance Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise16
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Heavy.AI?
I think whenever you're using these tools, you want it to be as conversational as possible, and I think more of that would be helpful for Heavy.AI. Allowing you to ask questions on how to do th...
What is your primary use case for Heavy.AI?
I was trying to get an idea of where some of the gaps were in my business specifically, where I should target my efforts using Heavy.AI for interactive analytics or graphics. I was trying to levera...
What advice do you have for others considering Heavy.AI?
I can compare Heavy.AI to some other things, and I was getting things that felt real. I was getting very good accuracy with it. It's hard to know exactly what is and what isn't accurate, bu...
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.
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 iss...
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 da...
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

Pactriglo, TUTELA, Skyhook, npm, Inc., Simulmedia
ASR Group, Citrix, State of Indiana, PocketCard Co. Ltd.
Find out what your peers are saying about Heavy.AI vs. SAP IQ and other solutions. Updated: November 2026.
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