Oracle Big Data Appliance vs SAP IQ comparison

Oracle and SAP are both solutions in the Data Warehouse category. Oracle is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.0, while SAP is ranked #15 with an average rating of 6.8. Oracle holds a 2.5% mindshare in Data Warehouse, compared to SAP’s 2.9% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Oracle Big Data Appliance

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75% willing to recommend

SAP IQ

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

SAP IQ and Oracle Big Data Appliance are competing in data management systems. SAP IQ has an advantage in ease of use and performance efficiency, while Oracle Big Data Appliance stands out for scalability and integration, ideal for big data solutions.

Features: SAP IQ is praised for fast query processing, low storage costs, and efficient data compression, making it suitable for analytics. Oracle Big Data Appliance offers advanced analytics, Hadoop integration, and collaboration tools supported by a robust architecture.

Room for Improvement: SAP IQ can enhance its scalability, integration with large data ecosystems, and advanced analytics capabilities. Oracle Big Data Appliance could improve in simplifying its deployment process, reducing initial setup complexity, and enhancing out-of-the-box usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP IQ is easy to deploy and supported by responsive customer service, offering a smooth onboarding experience. Oracle Big Data Appliance provides comprehensive support but requires dedicated IT resources for initial setup due to its feature-rich environment.

Pricing and ROI: SAP IQ generally has lower initial setup costs and offers quicker ROI due to efficient scaling in simpler settings. Oracle Big Data Appliance involves a higher initial investment but offers substantial long-term benefits through its scalability and integration capabilities, which can be appealing for organizations with advanced data processing requirements.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Big Data Appliance

Ranking in Data Warehouse

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAP IQ

Ranking in Data Warehouse

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (24th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Oracle Big Data Appliance is 2.5%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP IQ is 2.9%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Oracle Big Data Appliance	2.5%
SAP IQ	2.9%
Other	94.6%

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reviewer1031826

Analytics Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Platinum partnership leverages advanced storage and fosters seamless data integration

Areas of Oracle Big Data Appliance that can be improved include the pricing perspective because nowadays they have competition. We have so many technologies that have come to the market for less than even one-fourth or one-fifth of the Oracle price. For my side, the last time I worked with Oracle was in '21, '22. The price is a challenge that they have to look after. From the storage and data management perspective, I cannot recall anything that they have to improve, but they have to improve the visualization part significantly because they offer Oracle BI, which is an extremely not-matured application.

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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

"The best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."

"This is a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy."

"We could work on large unstructured datasets from different parts of the world on Facebook and Twitter to get better insights."

"The best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."

"The most valuable feature is that it can be used in conjunction with Spark memory processing, and our processing time has gone to 20 minutes from what used to be two or three hours on the mainframe."

"Big Data responds to my needs."

"The best feature of Oracle Big Data Appliance, from a price perspective for the storage, is because they have technology called the ZFS technology; it offers huge storage with a decent price."

"Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard."

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

"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."

"The performance is amazing, but the stability issues, and the expense of the product, coupled with less than top-tier technical support, should be considered when evaluating the product for your specific environment."

"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."

"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."

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

"Columnar storage allows high compression, high load rates and high query performance."

More SAP IQ pros

Cons

"The product should be simplified for the average user."

"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."

"The product should be simplified for the average user."

"We need to display the results on our website. I think there is another product that joins with it to give you the possibility."

"From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera."

"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."

"We had to pursue several performance tuning measures to bring up the system to scale."

"The tool gets stuck sometimes."

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

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

"A production database server should never crash in response to user input, but Sybase IQ has repeatedly done that for us, over multiple revisions of the product."

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

"There could be more documentation and training."

"Concurrency and functional error messaging."

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

More SAP IQ cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Oracle's prices are too high compared to others in the market."

"Negotiate based on the features required."

"Negotiation is very important."

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

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

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Government

14%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

34%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

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

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Oracle Big Data Appliance?

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Big Data Appliance?

The typical use case for Oracle Big Data Appliance, which my clients use, is usually that the customer who has an Oracle application uses it because they can leverage the storage part. I don't need...

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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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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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Overview

Oracle Big Data Appliance is a flexible, high-performance, secure platform for running diverse workloads on Hadoop and NoSQL systems. With Oracle Big Data SQL, Oracle Big Data Appliance extends Oracle’s industry-leading implementation of SQL to Hadoop and NoSQL systems. By combining the newest technologies from the Hadoop ecosystem and powerful Oracle SQL capabilities together on a single pre-configured platform, Oracle Big Data Appliance is uniquely able to support rapid development of new Big Data applications and tight integration with existing relational data.

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Oracle

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

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

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