We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and VMware Tanzu Greenplum 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."We are able to monitor daily jobs, so if there is anything that needs to be done then we can do it."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"It has allowed fast daily loads and analysis of millions of rows of data, which eventually moved to near real-time."
"Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"We have complete control over our data."
"It performs very well overall."
"Very fast for query processing."
"The most valuable feature for us is horizontal scaling."
"A very good, open-source platform."
"Pivotal Greenplum's shared-nothing architecture."
"Helps us to achieve large-scale analytics."
"Scalable (Massive) Parallel Processing (MPP) – The ability to bring to bear large amounts of compute against large data sets with Greenplum and the EMC DCA has proven itself to be very effective."
"It works very well with large database queries."
"The loading speed is very good."
"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."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"It could be made more user-friendly for business users which would increase the user base."
"I would like the tool to support different operating systems."
"I would like the ability to do more real-time type updates instead of batch-oriented updates."
"The only issue with the product is that the process is very slow when we have a huge amount of data."
"If the database is large with a lot of columns then it is difficult to clean the data."
"They should add more analytics. Their documentation could also be improved so that I don't have to bother my co-workers and tech support so often."
"One of the disadvantages, not a disadvantage with the product itself, but overall, is the expertise in the marketplace. It's not easy to find a Greenplum administrator in the market, compared to other products such as Oracle."
"The installation is difficult and should be made easier."
"VMware Tanzu Greenplum needs improvement in the memory area and improved methods for quick access to the disc. So, one of the quick goals of Greenplum must work on enhancing access to the disc by adding hints in the database."
"Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient."
"they need to interact more with customers. They need to explain the features, especially when there are new releases of Greenplum. I know just from information I've found that it has other features, it can be used to for analytics, for integration with Big Data, Hadoop. They need to focus on this part with the customer."
"I saw some limitation with respect to the column store, and removing this would be an improvement."
"If you have a user consuming a huge load of resources, it takes down the entire system."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is rated 7.8. 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 VMware Tanzu Greenplum writes "Very efficient at large scale analytics; lacks inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA and Snowflake, whereas VMware Tanzu Greenplum is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Vertica, Oracle Database Appliance and Apache Hadoop. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. VMware Tanzu Greenplum report.
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