Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse vs SAP IQ comparison

Oracle and SAP are both solutions in the Cloud Data Warehouse category. Additionally, 95% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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95% willing to recommend

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80% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and SAP IQ 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.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Warehouse (12th)

SAP IQ

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (24th), Data Warehouse (15th)

Featured Reviews

Kwajah Mohiuddin

Global Head of Architecture at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Provides self-repair features, but the setup is complex

We use the product for online applications. We use it in the financial industry The product has self-repair features. The tool tunes itself. It separates compute from storage. We can scale storage and compute separately. The setup is complex. Oracle is a complex tool. I have been using Oracle…

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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 solution has a self-backup, so you don't need a DBA (database administrator) to do a backup."

"It is a very stable tool...It is an extremely scalable tool."

"The solution is used for analytics and it works for our data security needs."

"The product has self-repair features."

"I really like the auto-tuning, auto-scaling, and the automatic load balancing and query tuning in the system."

"The solution is self-securing. All data is encrypted and security updates and patches are applied automatically both periodically and off-cycle."

"With Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, things are much simpler. Creating a structure, initializing the servers, extending the servers, those are all things that are very, very easy. That's the main reason we use it."

"The performance and scalability are awesome."

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

"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."

"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."

"IQ is a very high-performance and high-transaction database."

"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."

"Unbeatable speed and compression with a colummn-structured relational database."

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

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Cons

"We are not satisfied with the technical support. Their understanding is lacking."

"I would like to see an on-premise solution in the future."

"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is not available as an on-premises solution."

"There is a need for more storage to be allocated, but over a period of time, it becomes impossible to reduce it after using it."

"Ease of connectivity could be improved."

"Optimization should be better."

"The solution could be improved by allowing for migration tools from other cloud services, including migration from Amazon Redshift, RDS, and Aurora."

"I would like to see Application Express and Oracle R Enterprise fully supported, and I would like to see Oracle Data Mining supported as a front end."

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"Very few people are familiar with this technology, as training programs are very expensive."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Aborts happen, and we don't know why."

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

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

"The solution works best when combined with other SAP solutions. If the environment has other systems other options might be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."

"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."

"The price depends on the configuration we choose."

"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse's pricing is fair and reasonable compared to the other cloud vendors."

"ROI is high."

"In terms of architecture and pricing structure, I feel it is a little bit costly compared to Azure. It's fine compared to RedShift, but compared to Azure, it's a bit pricey when you calculate for one TB storage plus around five hours of reporting with the frequency of 1TB data. The cost adds up, making Oracle a bit expensive."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."

"You pay as you go, and you don't pay for services that you don't use."

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

"Negotiation is very important."

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

"Negotiate based on the features required."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

10%

Media Company

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

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	7
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

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

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not supported, which is not ideal.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

We are using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse for analytics in my company.

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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 Autonomous Data Warehouse is the world’s first and only autonomous database optimized for analytic workloads, including data marts, data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. With Autonomous Data Warehouse, data scientists, business analysts, and nonexperts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size and type. Built for the cloud and optimized using Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Data Warehouse benefits from faster performance and, according to an IDC report (PDF), lowers operational costs by an average of 63%.

Autonomous Database provides the foundation for a data lakehouse—a modern, open architecture that enables you to store, analyze, and understand all your data. The data lakehouse combines the power and richness of data warehouses with the breadth, flexibility, and low cost of popular open source data lake technologies. Access your data lakehouse through Autonomous Database using the world's most powerful and open SQL processing engine.

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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.

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Sample Customers

Hertz, TaylorMade Golf, Outront Media, Kingold, FSmart, Drop-Tank

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

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