SAP IQ vs TIBCO Live Datamart comparison

SAP and TIBCO are both solutions in the Data Warehouse category. SAP is ranked #15 with an average rating of 6.8, while TIBCO is ranked #22. SAP holds a 2.9% mindshare in Data Warehouse, compared to TIBCO’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of SAP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

SAP IQ

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80% willing to recommend

TIBCO Live Datamart

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100% willing to recommend

SAP IQ

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

TIBCO Live Datamart and SAP IQ are competing in real-time analytics and data management. TIBCO has an advantage in scenarios demanding immediate data insights due to its strengths in real-time data streaming and interactive data visualization.

Features: TIBCO Live Datamart offers real-time data processing, dynamic queries, and interactive visualization. SAP IQ specializes in scalable data storage, columnar database architecture, and high-speed data retrieval.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: TIBCO Live Datamart supports straightforward cloud-based deployment with efficient customer support. SAP IQ involves a complex setup but benefits from SAP's extensive support ecosystem.

Pricing and ROI: TIBCO Live Datamart has competitive pricing, promising quick ROI through efficient data streaming and real-time analytics. SAP IQ, with higher initial costs, delivers significant ROI benefits for large-scale data analysis with its efficient storage capabilities.

To learn more, read our detailed SAP IQ vs. TIBCO Live Datamart Report (Updated: March 2026).

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SAP IQ vs. TIBCO Live Datamart

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

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)

TIBCO Live Datamart

Ranking in Data Warehouse

22nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of SAP IQ is 2.9%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Live Datamart is 2.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP IQ	2.9%
TIBCO Live Datamart	2.1%
Other	95.0%

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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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Mohsin Pathan

Associate Vice President - Solutions, presales & services at Bahwan CyberTek

Standout features are real-time dashboards and powerful aggregation

This product has a powerful aggregating feature which is great. It also has its own APIs. Whenever the data comes in, it can be streamed out anywhere. It's the only solution that provides real-time dashboards. Tableau doesn't have this feature. The three variants of historical data, real-time data and predicted data from Spitfire, give more strength to LiveDatamart without any dependency on other products. The product is easy to set up with very low maintenance required.

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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

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

"It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."

"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."

"In the organizations I have worked with, SAP Sybase IQ has been used successfully as a datawarehouse solution and as data store for ad hoc querying, and it delivers performance and enormous scalability."

"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."

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

"We can now have over one billion rows in a table for semi-real trans-national querying."

"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."

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"The solution has a powerful aggregating feature"

"You can create your own rules that include mathematic calculations."

"The solution is mature and stable, even more so since it was acquired by TIBCO."

Cons

"It's too complex. This is concerning something that will change immediately."

"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."

"There is very little documentation available."

"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."

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

"With various patches of v15.4 and v16.0, we had instances where the IQ server crashed under certain circumstances."

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

"The only negative aspect of IQ is the cost, which can be challenging for companies in Peru."

More SAP IQ cons

"Improvements need to be made on the load balancing side."

"The solution's setup could be quicker and easier."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Negotiation is very important."

"Negotiate based on the features required."

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

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

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

"The solution might be considered a bit expensive because it competes with open-source products."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

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Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

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Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	16

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Questions from the Community

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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Also Known As

Sybase IQ

Streambase, TIBCO LiveView Data Mart

Overview

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

TIBCO Live Datamart is the industry’s first ultra fast continuous query processing engine made for live operational intelligence. It supports real-time data from anywhere, consumes live streaming data, and can connect to historical data in monolithic and edge systems by using either included data adapters or by leveraging the TIBCO integration platform. With its real-time computations against high-speed streaming data and continuous pushing of results to live queries, TIBCO Live Datamart offers users faster time to actionable insight and automated action.

TIBCO

Sample Customers

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

Aerospace Corporation, Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Services, Banco Sabadell, Bolton Borough Council

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