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 most valuable features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution."
"Distribution concurrency control."
"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 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 most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."
"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 performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."
"We are able to integrate our Vertica data warehouse with Tableau to create numerous reports quickly and efficiently."
"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."
"The fast columnar store database structure allows our query times to be at least 10x faster than on any other database."
"I enjoy the cybersecurity and backup features."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"It has improved my organization's functionality and performance."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough."
"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."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
"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."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"Vertica can improve automation and documentation. Additionally, the solution can be simplified."
"Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly."
"I think they need an easy client so that you can write queries easily, but it's not necessarily a weak point. I think some users would need them."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"We faced some challenges when trying to use the temporary tables feature."
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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 82 reviews. IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0, while Vertica is rated 8.4. 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, Snowflake, Oracle Database, SQL Server 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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