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."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."
"Distribution concurrency control."
"The most valuable features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."
"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 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."
"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."
"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 feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the unmatchable database performance."
"We are able to integrate our Vertica data warehouse with Tableau to create numerous reports quickly and efficiently."
"Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution."
"Its projections and encoding are excellent tools for tuning large volumes."
"The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast."
"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."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
"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."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."
"I would personally like to see extended developer tooling suited to Vertica – think published PowerDesigner SQL dialect support."
"Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"Vertica seems to scale well, except for one use case where you are on a multi-node cluster. For example, if you had a nine-node cluster, one node goes down, then the eight nodes don't scale, because the absence of the node is very apparent, which is a problem. If you have nine nodes or multiple nodes, the whole idea is that if one of those nodes goes down, then you should not see an impact on the system if you have enough capacity. Even though we have enough capacity, you can still see the impact of the one node going down."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
"If you do not utilize the tuning tools like projections, encoding, partitions, and statistics, then performance and scalability will suffer."
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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 Oracle Exadata. See our IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Vertica report.
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