Overall Satisfaction with SAP Sybase IQ
We use it to warehouse data to log every customer action and call that flows through our network. It's also referenced for customer billing and is replicated across. We do have a mandated requirement to keep this data available for 7 years.
IQ itself solves the big issue of warehousing large amounts of data.
IQ itself solves the big issue of warehousing large amounts of data.
- It recovers nicely and with minimal downtime.
- It works well on the Linux OS.
- It's easy for our DBA to work with and maintain.
- The pricing schedule is a bit expensive and cumbersome.
- Licensing for a virtual machine is difficult to understand.
- 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.