We performed a comparison between IBM Netezza Performance Server and Vertica 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."Distribution concurrency control."
"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 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 most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."
"The performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution."
"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."
"It has improved my organization's functionality and performance."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"I enjoy the cybersecurity and backup features."
"The hardware usage and speed has been the most valuable feature of this solution. It is very fast and has saved us a lot of money."
"Vertica is a great product because customers can compress and code data. The infrastructure that data warehouse solutions need is a commodity server so that customers don't have to invest in infrastructure."
"The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"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."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
"Our main problem with it is concurrency. When there are too many users running Netezza at the same time, this is when we have the most complaints."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
"Whatever's out, the core is not always as great as the engine, especially their first version."
"One feature, which has really benefited us, is the scalability offered by Vertica as it has enabled Pythian's clients to manage data with agility."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server."
"Vertica offers a platform-as-a-service version, but their software-as-a-service solution is only available on AWS. They need to get a SaaS version on Azure and GCP as fast as possible."
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IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Netezza Performance Server writes "A cost-effective data warehousing tool, but security features like TDE encryption are missing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, Snowflake, Teradata and VMware Tanzu Greenplum, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and SingleStore. See our IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Vertica report.
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