What is SAP IQ?

SAP IQ is our affordable, efficient relational database management system (RDBMS) for SAP Business Technology Platform that supports extreme-scale enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.

• Proven columnar relational database server
• Compliant with SQL standards
• Designed for analytics workloads on large data sets

Key Benefits

Create a unified data store for all data types and extract value from massive data volumes

Manage structured and processed unstructured data types in a single analytical framework. Enhance security with transport layer, database, and column encryption, as well as LDAP and Kerberos authentication. Support high availability with multiplex grid technology that mitigates node failures.

Improve and adapt to business performance and market dynamics while reducing costs

Compress data efficiently with technologies such as column-store compression, optimized database page formats for variable-sized data, N-bit fast projection indexes, and improved I/O rates. Then lowering costs with compression algorithms that reduce data storage volumes.

Scale to meet business needs

Add nodes and share them easily by managing self-service resource demands for thousands of users concurrently. Process queries efficiently with a column-oriented, elastic grid-based, massively parallel processing architecture. Get comprehensive answers from even petabyte-sized data sets to meet the growing demand for insight with an extensible in-database analytics framework.

Key Features

High-speed data loading

Make Big Data available faster to applications and people for in-the-moment decisions.

Cloud-ready, flexible deployment

Extend and modernize existing investments of Sybase offerings by applying SAP IQ as a cloud-native, fully managed service or on IaaS from major hyperscalers.

Streamline IT administration tasks

Store and query more data, more affordably – whether you have terabytes or petabytes of data and reduce IT workloads.

Enterprise wide analytics

Manage and analyze data from across your business and social sites, creating ad-hoc reports from real-time data to gain more insights.