IBM Integrated Analytics System vs SAP IQ comparison

IBM and SAP are both solutions in the Data Warehouse category. IBM is ranked #22, while SAP is ranked #15 with an average rating of 6.8. IBM holds a 1.5% mindshare in Data Warehouse, compared to SAP’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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IBM Integrated Analytics Sy...

Ranking in Data Warehouse

22nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

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 January 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of IBM Integrated Analytics System is 1.5%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP IQ is 2.4%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Warehouse Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP IQ	2.4%
IBM Integrated Analytics System	1.5%
Other	96.1%

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it_user258975

Senior Information Management Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

They deliver a canned, scalable solution, but I would like to see the TSA scripts available publicly.

With a solid DB2 foundation, it performs incredibly and I recently implemented the new BLU Acceleration, and was dumbfounded that hour-long queries took minutes, in the correct scenario, of course. From a consultant point of view, I can step in and immediately know the system. I do not…

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Akhilesh Narayanan

Tech Lead, Database Section. at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Compression performance gets high marks but user-friendly interface needs improvement

The downside of SAP IQ, from what I understood from the management side, is that the front end for the DBA, for the admin, is not that user-friendly. If you compare it with SQL Server Management Studio, it is not that user-friendly GUI for the admin. But the engine is very strong and powerful. It is easy to deploy SAP IQ; the implementation and installation are easy. The downside I see is that it doesn't allow most integrated backups; many of the marketplace players such as NetBackup, those software integrated backups are not available. So, if you want to take a backup, you need to take it locally, and then only you can back it up to any storage or anything. Those features such as integrated backup, which would allow it to stripe into an appliance or something similar, are not present. One thing I notice as a downside is that if the CPU utilization is very high, there is no direct way we can find out which query is taking the most CPU. In any other RDBMS, there are DMVs available to find out which query is taking most of the CPU, but those features are not present in SAP IQ. If our CPU is hitting at 100%, it is not easy to identify which connection is taking the most CPU.

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

36%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

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

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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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Also Known As

Smart Analytics System, IBM Smart Analytics System

Sybase IQ

Overview

The IBM Smart Analytics System provides analytics capabilities on a data warehouse foundation. This integrated and optimized system combines advanced software with IBM server and storage hardware to address a range of analytics workloads and accelerate deployment to help achieve greater efficiency, lower cost and higher performance.

IBM

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

WIdO AOK, EEKA Fashion, SSGC, GS Retail

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

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