Infobright DB vs SAP IQ comparison

IgniteTech and SAP are both solutions in the Relational Databases Tools category. IgniteTech is ranked #34, while SAP is ranked #24 with an average rating of 6.8. IgniteTech holds a 1.0% mindshare in SQL, compared to SAP’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of IgniteTech users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Infobright DB

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

SAP IQ and Infobright DB compete in database management, with SAP IQ having an advantage for enterprise solutions due to its integration and versatility. Infobright DB stands out for rapid analytics in data warehousing.

Features: SAP IQ offers powerful data compression, efficient query performance, and extensive integration with SAP systems. Infobright DB features intelligent data storage, automatic indexing, and optimized query capabilities for large-scale analytics.

Room for Improvement: SAP IQ can improve by reducing setup complexity, enhancing non-SAP integration, and lowering costs. Infobright DB could benefit from broader support, improved documentation, and more flexible data handling features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP IQ ensures seamless deployment into SAP environments with extensive support documentation. Infobright DB is easy to deploy in analytics environments but has more limited customer service.

Pricing and ROI: SAP IQ involves higher upfront costs but provides significant ROI through enhanced enterprise-level performance. Infobright DB offers a cost-effective setup, rapid ROI from analytics speed, and efficiency for focused analytic capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Infobright DB

Ranking in Relational Databases Tools

34th

Ranking in Data Warehouse

20th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAP IQ

Ranking in Relational Databases Tools

24th

Ranking in Data Warehouse

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Infobright DB is 1.0%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP IQ is 1.7%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP IQ	1.7%
Infobright DB	1.0%
Other	97.3%

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it_user708987

MySQL DBA at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Excellent reporting server that is compatible with MySQL

We ran into some quirks that Infobright had. We interacted with Infobright's support and were able to resolve them. There still are issues with data replication - Infobright is currently for one server (unless you buy the Infobright appliance). This would mean that redundancy is something you need to implement yourself.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"A valuable feature was the use of a columnar database for large, ever-growing, big datasets."

"Infobright gave us the ability to avoid significant changes in our data structure and just use Infobright like BigDataMySql."

"ICE helped us improve the speed for the “group-by” query by 10x."

"We now have multiple times faster queries in comparison to MS SQL."

"The performance of ad hoc aggregation queries is superior to any RDBMS that I have used and I have used them all."

"The high compression and the relatively fast load for a free product."

"Infobright allowed us to reduce the number of moving parts and complexity that we had while providing good performance to produce our reports."

"It has very amazing smart grid query feature for very fast aggregate queries across millions of rows"

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"It has the best performance in data retrieval compared to other database engines and reduces HW cost, achieving up to 70% less storage; Database is smaller than input data, even with all the indexes."

"It’s the central component of our enterprise data warehouse."

"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."

"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."

"Sybase IQ is a column based database, used for business intelligence, data warehousing, and data marts."

"But I do not think that other products really have an advantage for warehousing over the SAP IQ solution."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."

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Cons

"There still are issues with data replication - Infobright is currently for one server (unless you buy the Infobright appliance)."

"On the contrary, we have switched back to the MS SSAS Tabular Model, because of pricing policy."

"When running a complex subquery, the system hangs without giving the user any response."

"MPP, distributed processing!!! And better integration with Hadoop."

"There was no scalability at all. Infobright didn't permit any changes in tables."

"We didn’t purchase the Enterprise Edition because it was too expensive for a product that wasn’t going to replace our main DWH database (Oracle), but was, somehow, only an addition for it."

"After all the re-work to our product to remove as much reliance on Infobright, and the extra hardware costs we had to absorb, there was definitely a negative return on investment."

"Only the data from the columns that reached 2GB will actually decrease. Other columns below 2GB in size do not leave the disk."

"There could be more documentation and training."

"In my interaction with SAP IQ's technical support, the people we are talking to don't know this application very thoroughly."

"Technical support for the product has become almost nonexistent for this product."

"The downside I see is that it doesn't allow most integrated backups; many of the marketplace players such as NetBackup or Veritas, those software integrated backups are not available."

"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."

"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."

"There is very little documentation available."

"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our pricing was based on server instances and it was actually very cheap compared to Oracle. I guess you get what you pay for."

"Evaluate all options; check to see if you need expensive add-ons."

"Negotiation is very important."

"The only costs after standard licensing fees are for add-ons and upgrades."

"Negotiate based on the features required."

"It's not that costly. So, the pricing is cheap."

"The cost of implementation is about $3,000."

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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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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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Also Known As

Infobright

Sybase IQ

Overview

Infobright's high performance analytic database is designed for analyzing large volumes of machine-generated data

IgniteTech

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.

SAP

Sample Customers

REZ-1, SonicWALL, IntegriChain, Fuseforward International Inc., Polystar, Live Rail, Mavenir Systems, JDSU Partners, Bango

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

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