We performed a comparison between SAP IQ and Snowflake Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"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."
"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."
"It's a scalable solution because you can analyze a huge amount of data in the solution."
"Very good flexibility and it offers computation completely decoupled from the storage."
"It is an all-in-one platform that provides the capabilities needed for various analytics tasks, including data warehousing for machine learning."
"Time Travel and Snowpipe are good features."
"Its performance speed is very good."
"The computational power of Snowflake is very good."
"Deployment is straightforward as it's a SaaS product. No maintenance required."
"The most valuable features of Snowflake for our data analytics are its time travel capability, allowing easy data recovery, and its automatic optimization of partitioning and clustering."
"Concurrency and functional error messaging."
"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."
"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."
"The room for improvement would be the marketing of the product, because this product is much better than advertised."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"One notable absence in Snowflake's offerings is an on-premises solution."
"If you have a lot of computations, it becomes very costly."
"Machine learning in Snowflake isn't as advanced as in other products. I haven't heard of any successful industry-wide use cases of machine learning implemented in Snowflake. It might take a couple of years to reach the same level as Databricks."
"The distribution methodology isn't as strong as Bethesda or SAP HANA. It's not as strong as other competitors."
"Snowflake Analytics can improve the integration with machine learning tools and AI and it will make the solution more usable."
"Snowflake could improve in the areas of advanced machine learning AML and generative AI."
"One area that could benefit from enhancement is the user interface for more visual ESM features."
"The scheduling of jobs requires improvement, particularly in terms of the user interface which currently lacks certain features found in comparable platforms."
SAP IQ is ranked 21st in Relational Databases Tools with 17 reviews while Snowflake Analytics is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 30 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 8.0, while Snowflake Analytics is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake Analytics writes "A scalable tool useful for data lake and data mining processes". SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SQL Server, SAP BW4HANA and Apache Hadoop, whereas Snowflake Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude and Glassbox. See our SAP IQ vs. Snowflake Analytics report.
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