I did a proof of concept last year where Oracle and IQ were tested side-by-side on the same O/S. In almost every case the IQ load speed was on par or slower than Oracle (SQLLDR). However, the IQ query performance consistently blew away Oracle, often by quite a large margin.
I’m not saying that you don’t have an issue with the data fields, but I want to give you some perspective so that you don’t expect blazing fast load speeds on IQ.