We performed a comparison between SAP IQ and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is very robust for ad hoc DW queries and its columnar compression is unique and valuable."
"The column-based technologies (basically all the database for ITP) are used for SAP IQ. It is used as a column-based solution."
"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."
"Valuable features for us include the compression, speed, fast response time, and easy object maintenance."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"The hardware usage and speed has been the most valuable feature of this solution. It is very fast and has saved us a lot of money."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"The fast columnar store database structure allows our query times to be at least 10x faster than on any other database."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"The feature of the product that is most important is the speed. I needed a columnar database, and its speed is what it's built to do, and so that's what really does differentiate Vertica from its competitors."
"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."
"I think the universe should be part of the Sybase IQ tool set."
"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."
"Performance of management of metadata layer (database catalog) needs improvement. We still have to have smaller customers on PostgreSQL; Vertica cannot manage thousands of schemata."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"I have found that coding support could be simplified."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"Vertica seems to scale well, except for one use case where you are on a multi-node cluster. For example, if you had a nine-node cluster, one node goes down, then the eight nodes don't scale, because the absence of the node is very apparent, which is a problem. If you have nine nodes or multiple nodes, the whole idea is that if one of those nodes goes down, then you should not see an impact on the system if you have enough capacity. Even though we have enough capacity, you can still see the impact of the one node going down."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"I would personally like to see extended developer tooling suited to Vertica – think published PowerDesigner SQL dialect support."
SAP IQ is ranked 16th in Data Warehouse with 17 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. SAP IQ is rated 8.0, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP IQ writes "Easy to use, highly stable, but integration could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". SAP IQ is most compared with Snowflake, SAP HANA, SQL Server and SAP BW4HANA, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata. See our SAP IQ vs. Vertica report.
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