We performed a comparison between Amazon Redshift and IBM Netezza Performance Server 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."Easy to build out our snowflake design and load data."
"Amazon Redshift is very fast. It has really good response times. It's very user-friendly."
"Setup is easy. It's a fast solution with machine learning features, good integration, and a good API."
"Redshift COPY command, because much of my work involved helping customers migrate large amounts of data into Redshift."
"I have primarily used the Redshift Spectrum feature and found it most valuable."
"We have found Machine Learning use cases are very nice."
"The stability of Amazon Redshift is good."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Redshift are that its fast and efficient. We have lots of TBs of data and it's very fast."
"The performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."
"The most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."
"We are able to execute very complex queries. Over 90 percent of our query executions are one second or less. We do millions of queries everyday."
"The most valuable features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."
"The underlying hardware that IBM provides with this appliance is made for a specific purpose, to serve performance on a large amount of data, and to do analytics as well. It is faster, when you compare it to any other product."
"The benefit is really because of the additional speed that we have and, truth be told, the more updated ETL processes and the revamped scheduler in general."
"The data governance prospect... from what I've seen, that is a really powerful tool as well, to help with data lineage and keeping track of that."
"Distribution concurrency control."
"What would make Amazon Redshift better is improvising on the pricing structure. For example, Acronis provides backups in cybersecurity, yet the pricing is a bit lesser than Amazon Redshift."
"Query compilation time needs a lot of improvement for cases where you are generating queries dynamically."
"They should provide a better way to work with interim data in a structured way than to store it in parquet files locally."
"There are physically too many pipelines for a company of this size to maintain. For a data scientist, it's very difficult to learn the data in all of these different environments."
"Planting is the primary key enforcement that should be improved."
"There is some missing functionality and sometimes it's so difficult to work in. We need to convert these functionalities using VACUUM inside Amazon Redshift and then it causes some complexity."
"The OLAP slide and dice features need to be improved."
"This solution lacks integration with non-AWS sources."
"In terms of features that I would like to see, one is the ability to actually scale out an architecture. Right now, if you buy one, it's fixed. There is no scale-up availability at all."
"We are not able to scale. The only way to scale is to get another appliance, but we have a customers who would need us to hydrate the data between the two appliances, and Netezza does not do that."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
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Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 58 reviews while IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews. Amazon Redshift is rated 7.8, while IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Redshift writes "Provides one place where we can store data, and allows us to easily connect to other services with AWS". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Netezza Performance Server writes "A cost-effective data warehousing tool, but security features like TDE encryption are missing". Amazon Redshift is most compared with AWS Lake Formation, Snowflake, Teradata, Vertica and Apache Hadoop, whereas IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, Snowflake, Teradata and IBM Integrated Analytics System. See our Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Netezza Performance Server report.
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