We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and Teradata based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"Collecting the data through SSIS packages from different sources and putting them all in one data repository is the most powerful thing. While others have this feature, they don't have the simplicity or ease of use when getting a resource and knowing everything about it."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the business intelligence (BI) part of it."
"We have complete control over our data."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"Tools like the BI and SAS are excellent."
"Teradata is a great, industry-leading data warehousing product that has MPP architecture."
"The performance is great, we are able to query our data in one operation."
"It's a pre-configured appliance that requires very little in terms of setting-up."
"Teradata can be easily used in ETL mode transformations, so there is no need for expensive and inconvenient ETL tools"
"Teradata's pretty fast."
"A conventional and easily defined way to build a data warehouse or a layer of data marts."
"It's very mature from a technology perspective."
"It is a solid database a lot of different tools to move data."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"In the future I would love to see a slightly better automation engine, just for the data integration layer, to make it slightly easier for end-users or junior developers to get involved in incremental updating."
"It could be made more user-friendly for business users which would increase the user base."
"SQL installation is pretty tricky. The scalability and customer support also should be improved."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"Sometimes the large injestion takes days to load data, and some of our stored procedures take two to three days."
"Teradata should focus on functionality for building predictive models because, in that regard, it can definitely improve."
"Teradata is an old data warehouse, and they're not improving in terms of new, innovative features."
"The capability to implement it with comparable performance across various private cloud environments, ensuring adaptability to different infrastructure setups would be beneficial."
"It's primarily designed for big projects and therefore, the pricing is pretty high. It's not suitable for smaller companies."
"I think the UI is not there yet. It could be improved by being more user-friendly."
"The scalability could be better. The on-premises solution is always more complicated to scale."
"Teradata's UI could be improved."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 54 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Teradata is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA and Snowflake, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, MySQL and BigQuery. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. Teradata report.
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You are asking about front end tools but you do not mention which ones. What you have are "database backends" and each has different features. The utilization will depend on what kind of expertise you have available else you will end up trying to implement say, Teradata on Exadata which may not give you the best solution. What are your criteria for success? Based on these you will have to evaluate each solution -- I am sure each vendor will be happy to set up the environment and work with your set of sampl,e data to show you have they evaluate against your criteria.
Given we partner with many or all of the above, or can get to them as we access all data, I have the following opinion - InfoBright is very new and probable to be sold long term. It is also an expensive subscription so presents highest risk to me. Exidata is Oracle - if you like Oracle and their style, it maybe ok, but then it is Oracle. Microsoft is Microsoft - tends to be cheap to acquire and expensive to implement and maintain. Teradata is pricey but of the group presents the least risk and the greatest number of front end partners. The product I represent is unique as it is designed for high complexity large numbers of users and data and runs inside Teradata taking better advantage of the architecture.
Disclosure: I work for Information Builders