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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    OpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server

    N/AN/AVirtuoso Universal Server from OpenLink Software headquartered in Massachusetts is a multi-model DBMS and Data Virtualization platform, designed to enable fast and flexible integration of data across APIs, Various Data Formats, and DBMS platforms without compromising security, performance, or deployment platform options.

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    SAP IQOpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server
    Editions & Modules
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    Personal
    $499
    per year 5 Concurrent Sessions & 8 CPU Core Affinity
    Project
    $749
    per year 5 Concurrent Sessions & 16 CPU Core Affinity
    Workgroup
    $999
    per year 10 Concurrent Sessions & 16 CPU Core Affinity
    (PAGO Edition) for Ubuntu 20.04 on Microsoft Azure - Basic
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    starting at $303.552
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    Open-Source Edition
    Free under the GPL-2.0 license
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SAP IQOpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    SAP IQOpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    SAP IQOpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    OpenLink Software
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    Pros
    SAP
    • 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
    • The pricing schedule is a bit expensive and cumbersome.
    • Licensing for a virtual machine is difficult to understand.
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    Support Rating
    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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    OpenLink Software
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    OpenLink Software
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    Return on Investment
    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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    OpenLink Software
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