Oracle Big Data Appliance vs SAP IQ comparison

Oracle and SAP are both solutions in the Data Warehouse category. Oracle is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.0, while SAP is ranked #15 with an average rating of 6.8. Oracle holds a 2.0% mindshare in Data Warehouse, compared to SAP’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Oracle Big Data Appliance

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75% willing to recommend

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

SAP IQ and Oracle Big Data Appliance are competing in data management systems. SAP IQ has an advantage in ease of use and performance efficiency, while Oracle Big Data Appliance stands out for scalability and integration, ideal for big data solutions.

Features: SAP IQ is praised for fast query processing, low storage costs, and efficient data compression, making it suitable for analytics. Oracle Big Data Appliance offers advanced analytics, Hadoop integration, and collaboration tools supported by a robust architecture.

Room for Improvement: SAP IQ can enhance its scalability, integration with large data ecosystems, and advanced analytics capabilities. Oracle Big Data Appliance could improve in simplifying its deployment process, reducing initial setup complexity, and enhancing out-of-the-box usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP IQ is easy to deploy and supported by responsive customer service, offering a smooth onboarding experience. Oracle Big Data Appliance provides comprehensive support but requires dedicated IT resources for initial setup due to its feature-rich environment.

Pricing and ROI: SAP IQ generally has lower initial setup costs and offers quicker ROI due to efficient scaling in simpler settings. Oracle Big Data Appliance involves a higher initial investment but offers substantial long-term benefits through its scalability and integration capabilities, which can be appealing for organizations with advanced data processing requirements.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Big Data Appliance

Ranking in Data Warehouse

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

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 Oracle Big Data Appliance is 2.0%, up from 0.8% 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 (%)
Oracle Big Data Appliance	2.0%
SAP IQ	2.4%
Other	95.6%

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reviewer1031826

Analytics Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Platinum partnership leverages advanced storage and fosters seamless data integration

Areas of Oracle Big Data Appliance that can be improved include the pricing perspective because nowadays they have competition. We have so many technologies that have come to the market for less than even one-fourth or one-fifth of the Oracle price. For my side, the last time I worked with Oracle was in '21, '22. The price is a challenge that they have to look after. From the storage and data management perspective, I cannot recall anything that they have to improve, but they have to improve the visualization part significantly because they offer Oracle BI, which is an extremely not-matured application.

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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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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard."

"The best feature of Oracle Big Data Appliance, from a price perspective for the storage, is because they have technology called the ZFS technology; it offers huge storage with a decent price."

"This is a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy."

"The best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"The initial setup is easy."

"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."

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Cons

"The product should be simplified for the average user."

"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."

"From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera."

"The organization who owns the product does not support it well and appears not to be doing significant development for the future."

"The primary negative aspect is the cost, which can be a challenge due to the economic conditions in Peru."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"There is very little documentation available."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Oracle's prices are too high compared to others in the market."

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

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

"Negotiation is very important."

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

"Negotiate based on the features required."

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

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

36%

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Computer Software Company

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

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Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	16

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Oracle Big Data Appliance?

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Big Data Appliance?

The typical use case for Oracle Big Data Appliance, which my clients use, is usually that the customer who has an Oracle application uses it because they can leverage the storage part. I don't need...

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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 Big Data Appliance is a flexible, high-performance, secure platform for running diverse workloads on Hadoop and NoSQL systems. With Oracle Big Data SQL, Oracle Big Data Appliance extends Oracle’s industry-leading implementation of SQL to Hadoop and NoSQL systems. By combining the newest technologies from the Hadoop ecosystem and powerful Oracle SQL capabilities together on a single pre-configured platform, Oracle Big Data Appliance is uniquely able to support rapid development of new Big Data applications and tight integration with existing relational data.

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Oracle

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

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