We performed a comparison between IBM Netezza Performance Server and Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse 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 execute very complex queries. Over 90 percent of our query executions are one second or less. We do millions of queries everyday."
"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."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution."
"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."
"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."
"It has allowed fast daily loads and analysis of millions of rows of data, which eventually moved to near real-time."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"Tools like the BI and SAS are excellent."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"Collecting the data through SSIS packages from different sources and putting them all in one data repository is the most powerful thing. While others have this feature, they don't have the simplicity or ease of use when getting a resource and knowing everything about it."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"We are able to monitor daily jobs, so if there is anything that needs to be done then we can do it."
"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."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
"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."
"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."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"The only issue with the product is that the process is very slow when we have a huge amount of data."
"SQL installation is pretty tricky. The scalability and customer support also should be improved."
"The reporting for certain types of data needs to be improved."
"I would like to see better visualization features."
"The product does not have all of the features that the native products have."
"The product must provide more frequent updates."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
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IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews. IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6. 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 Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, Snowflake, Teradata and SQL Server, whereas Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Greenplum. See our IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse report.
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