We performed a comparison between MySQL 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."It creates a unified view of the entire architecture and performance factor, helping to manage the network more easily."
"It has a community version. When I have to create a new database, I have no problems with licenses."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We use the basic features of MySQL. The interface that allows us to see the parameters of the server is good."
"I like MySQL because of its community."
"What I've been most pleased with is the cost point, performance, and ease of use."
"MySQL's clustering features are very strong, and you can automate scripting, so that helps. We wrote a Terraform script and ran it."
"The most valuable features are that it's free and the documentation is good."
"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."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."
"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"Even for the best database, we always want the database to perform much better, so we wish MySQL would be much better, in terms of performance."
"I would like to have features that allow us to jump between the cloud and our on-premises system."
"I would like to see some improvements in the solution’s integration aspects."
"The integration with other systems can be improved as can the integration between other databases."
"Clusters are hard to perform so we use no SQL alternates like MongoDB."
"I would like to see more integrations of the solution with other platforms and improve the support on different data types."
"Its performance should be better. When we use big data, it is slow in performance. We should be able to use mirroring for improved performance."
"The GUI could improve in MySQL."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"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."
MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 140 reviews while SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 17 reviews. MySQL is rated 8.2, while SAP IQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Teradata and SQL Server, whereas SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, SAP HANA, Apache Hadoop and SAP BW4HANA. See our MySQL vs. SAP IQ report.
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