--- title: SAP IQ Reviews meta\_title: 'SAP IQ Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 32 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SAP IQ works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 32 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # SAP IQ Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by SAP IQ but has limited features. Are you part of the SAP IQ team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [SAP](https://www.g2.com/sellers/sap) Discussions [SAP IQ Community](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-iq/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Alejandro Barajas (Advocacy and Amplification, Global Customer Marketing CoE at SAP) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-iq/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![IBM Db2](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Db2") IBM Db2 4.1/5(683) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-db2/reviews) [ ![Microsoft SQL Server](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Microsoft SQL Server") Microsoft SQL Server 4.4/5(2,287) ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) [ ![PostgreSQL](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "PostgreSQL") PostgreSQL 4.4/5(684) ](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-iq/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 32 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) AV Aayush V. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/26/2023 "column-based RDBMS, main function to analyze the data." 4.5/5 What do you like best about SAP IQ? its ability to limit the expansion of the costly SAP HANA database, which has limited storage capacity. Used by data engineers for warehousing, easy to use and implementation is also easy than oracle and mongoDB relational database management system. It is integrated with many organization including mine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP IQ? When we tried to connect it through other softwares then it is bit tricky because it is not easily available as SQL drivers and SQL workbench, In starting few days you also need some kind of trainings then it is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP IQ solving and how is that benefiting you? 1) Inserting thousands of rows of data takes time equal to blink of an eye. 2) Aggregating billions of rows of data is insanely fast, efficient and easy to use in comparison of ther RDBMS like oracle etc. 3) this also facilitates you to do extreme data compression with your data. 4) It is commony known as sybase , syntax of sybase and SQL is mostly similar with some differences. 5) Sometimes faced issue with support, but easy to resolve through SAP IQ support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Tanay M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tanay M.") TM Tanay M. SAP Consultant Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/18/2023 "Informative and very insightful" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP IQ? n-bitindex is used to access the data. Nbit and tiered indexing is used to allow for increase compression and fast incremental batch loads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP IQ? Nothing as of now.Its just very functional Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP IQ solving and how is that benefiting you? I work for an ETL provider in SAPIQ, when indexed correctly, a value that would have to be stored once in each row of data in a traditional database is toad only ones Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness") CH Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/7/2023 "review for SAP IQ" 4/5 What do you like best about SAP IQ? its performance in handling large datasets and complex queries.making it suitable for data-intensive applications.also SAP IQ supports parallel processing, allowing it to handle large volumes of data by distributing processing across multiple nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP IQ? In some industries, SAP IQ might not be as widely adopted as other database solutions, potentially leading to a smaller community of users and resources for support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP IQ solving and how is that benefiting you? The column-oriented architecture of SAP IQ enhances reporting performance by only accessing the columns needed for a query.SAP IQ's columnar storage and advanced compression enable quick and efficient querying of vast datasets, supporting analytics and reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/11/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/20/2023 "SAP IQ I had an amazing experience with this company" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP IQ? SAP IQ is one of the industry's best big data analytics companies. With expertise in data analytics consulting, machine learning, and quantitative algorithms, data mining, it offers predictive analytics services to many industries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP IQ? The effects of poor code quality are known, and there are principles and practices for improving it. If we ignore all of this, development is slower, riskier, and more stressful. There are multiple ways that it costs tons of money. And there's a human cost: Developers who work on that code are much less happy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP IQ solving and how is that benefiting you? IQ compresses in bitmaps, and HANA compresses with dictionary encoding which means that HANA only needs to decompress exactly the data it needs, and it does so inside the CPU cache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jeanrio R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jeanrio R.") JR Jeanrio R. IT Support Specialist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/18/2023 "HELPFUL SAP IQ" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP IQ? Easier to review references and order status Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP IQ? tcodes , delivery status , delivery type , order type , sap print error Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP IQ solving and how is that benefiting you? Orders that haven't flown to server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shreyansi H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shreyansi H.") SH Shreyansi H. Associate Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/7/2023 "My experience with SAP IQ" 4.5/5 What do you like best about SAP IQ? SAP IQ provides services what current market needs and that fulfills project requirements. It has good customer support and ease of integration and ease of use is commendable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP IQ? The pricing could be difficult to understand and sometimes it's quite expensive for small size businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP IQ solving and how is that benefiting you? SAP IQ solves the problem of storing large amount of data with increased query performance as far as user requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Neha S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Neha S.") NS Neha S. Associate Software Engineer Computer & Network Security Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/10/2023 "My Experience with SAP IQ services." 4.5/5 What do you like best about SAP IQ? their key highlight, which is storing large amounts of data without affecting the query performance. also, they have user friendly interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP IQ? pricing could be difficult to understand for some small scale business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP IQ solving and how is that benefiting you? SAP IQ solves the problem of storing large amounts of data with increased query performance as user requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness") CH Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/6/2023 "A perfect fit for my business!!!!" 3.5/5 What do you like best about SAP IQ? We usually deal with large volumes of data for our analytical databases and warehouse for that the SAP IQ compresses the data very efficiently plus it is easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP IQ? Pricing can be a little more customer friendly for small scale businesses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP IQ solving and how is that benefiting you? storing and compressing large amount of data with the incresinf the query performances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Alyssa S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alyssa S.") AS Alyssa S. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/5/2023 "SAP IQ helps me make data driven decisions" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP IQ? SAP IQ is a great way to analyze information or analyze your business' processes to ensure you're making data driven decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP IQ? There are no downsides, SAP IQ is user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP IQ solving and how is that benefiting you? This is helping me to analyze our processes and client database for ease of processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vaibhav A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vaibhav A.") VA Vaibhav A. Associate Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/26/2023 "Data Engineer with total 2+ years of experience in the industry." 4/5 What do you like best about SAP IQ? SAP IQ Provides services what current market needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP IQ? pricing could be difficult to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP IQ solving and how is that benefiting you? SAP IQ solves the problem of storing large amount of data with increased query performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about SAP IQ? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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