We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 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."IBM DB2 pureScale Feature is valuable."
"The solution has very good data compression of up to 50%. For example, if you have 50 terabytes of data, it can be reduced to 25 terabytes."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution can scale."
"The solution is easy to install and simple to maintain. The most valuable aspect of the solution is its general user-friendliness for users of all kinds."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The solution is a very stable relational database and has integration with legacy systems. It is a great product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with other IBM products."
"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"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."
"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."
"IBM Db2 Database is not ACID compliant, which would improve it. Db2 lacks Isolation, so when two people are trying to update the same field at the same time it can become stuck. Other newer databases do not have this issue, such as Microsoft SQL, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, and SAP HANA."
"There could be better integration with some cloud solutions."
"The ease of use, or ease of management, could be improved."
"I would like to see better support for advanced analytics."
"Also, the website could be more intuitive. I didn't find it easy to find documentation on the website."
"IBM's products tend to be quite costly, especially given the availability of free, open-source alternatives."
"The initial set up was complex."
"The technical support team is not very good when compared to the efficiency of Oracle's support."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"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."
"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."
IBM Db2 Database is ranked 6th in Relational Databases Tools with 66 reviews while SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 17 reviews. IBM Db2 Database is rated 8.2, while SAP IQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Database writes "Very scalable with high availability and excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". IBM Db2 Database is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, SAP HANA, MySQL and Teradata, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, SAP HANA, Apache Hadoop and SAP BW4HANA. See our IBM Db2 Database vs. SAP IQ report.
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