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    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is a transactional relational database, boasting fast, reliable online transaction processing (OLTP). SAP ASE is the company's transactional database within the SAP Business Technology Platform portfolio.N/A

    SAP IQ

    Score5.5 out of 10
    N/ASAP IQ (formerly SAP Sybase IQ) is a columnar relational database management system (RDBMS) optimized for Big Data analytics.N/A
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    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)SAP IQ
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    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)SAP IQ
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)SAP IQ
    Considered Both Products
    SAP
    Chose SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
    Much less effort than Oracle. Much better customer support than Oracle.
    Roughly equivalent to SQL Server in performance and ease of use. Much better customer service than SQL Server.
    Different ballpark from IQ. Same customer service.
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    SAP
    Chose SAP IQ
    When dealing with row by row inserts, or developing front ends, all three databases above far exceed SAP IQ's performance. It struggles when trying to do individual small transactions.

    When doing massive bulk transactions, or extensive queries, SAP IQ outperforms all three by …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)SAP IQ
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) and SAP IQ
    Feature
    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SAP IQ
    -
    Ratings
    ACID compliance9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)SAP IQ
    Small Businesses
    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.5 out of 10
    Db2
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)SAP IQ
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)SAP IQ
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    We use this for an inbuilt security management system, where it performs well in a scaled setup with a large volume of live data with high availability. Also, the performance is up to the mark for the large statement flow. From a DBA perspective, a lot of parameters need to be fine-tuned for the specific environment needs, which can cause overhead. Expertise is limited, and the learning curve is steep for the SAP ASE.
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    SAP
    Does data compression very well, produces query results very quickly, ability to scale up as data volume/size grow in an organization, row level versioning is in memory and hence the speed. It is a very stable product for large enterprises. More detailed documentation on how to use this product in the initial stages would be really welcome.
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    Pros
    SAP
    • High availability and reliability.
    • High performance.
    • Monitoring of threshold based events.
    • Security at multiple levels.
    • Query plan optimization.
    • Lock management.
    • Access to HANA.
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    • Inserting millions of rows of data takes seconds.
    • Aggregating billions of rows of data is insanely fast (compared to Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server).
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    Cons
    SAP
    • A quick button for devs to switch instances into a dev mode (eliminating logs, and such).
    • Licensing is far too complicated. Simplify pricing.
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    SAP
    • The pricing schedule is a bit expensive and cumbersome.
    • Licensing for a virtual machine is difficult to understand.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    Our licenses are perpetual. It is the support that we will be renewing. We will renew because we continue to use and receive value from the product.
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    Usability
    SAP
    Well-suited in the security domain, high performance, and low latency of the DBMS. In terms of the DBA perspective, a dedicated monitoring tool (Cockpit) helps a lot in terms of managing the database, which helps in identifying bottlenecks during performance issues. Also, it helps us to send custom alerts related to Database activities.
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    Support Rating
    SAP
    Incredibly responsive, saving us countless hours in troubleshooting.
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    SAP
    SAP IQ support is top-notch. I prefer starting all my SAP IQ support tickets with their Instant Messenger, where the majority of our issues are resolved. If it makes it to their ticketing system, they are very prompt at responding and very knowledgeable in the platform.
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    SAP
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    SAP
    SAP IQ is perhaps an under-marketed product in the sense that it is able to scale up very well and perform much faster and more efficiently than other products such as Oracle - when we ran multiple large queries on both Sybase IQ and Oracle, we found that that results were much faster in Sybase IQ and this gave the confidence to go for this product.
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    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • Positive ROI.
    • Ease of use with minimal training required to write high performance SQL (assumes a knowledge of SQL already).
    • Ease of database administration.
    • Sometimes upgrades can be difficult.
    • Changing platforms can be difficult (changing say from SPARC to Intel).
    • Changing operating systems can be difficult (changing from Solaris to linux).
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    SAP
    • The ROI over a number of years has been good. Seeing as how we use it for billing, it has an obvious ROI to us.
    • As they have been modifying their licensing structure, it's been difficult to keep up and understand how they work.
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