We performed a comparison between IBM Netezza Performance Server and Snowflake 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 performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."
"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 features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."
"Distribution concurrency control."
"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 most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."
"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 solution's computing time is less."
"The features I found most valuable with this solution are sharing options and built-in time zone conversion."
"Data Science capabilities are the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the snapshot database. In one second, you can just take a snapshot of the database for test purposes."
"The most efficient way for real-time dashboards or analytical business intelligence reports to be sent to the customer."
"It is a very well-distributed system. It has different data engines for different applications. Many applications can use different computational engines at the same time. In terms of data processing, the feeling was similar to working with a relational database but in a scalable way."
"Its speed and performance were the most valuable. Easy configuration of Snowflake in any cloud was also a benefit."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"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."
"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."
"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 only issue is that it's not expandable."
"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."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
"There are always a few operation updates here and there that can be made."
"We would like to have an on-premises deployment option that has the same features, including scalability."
"The cost of the solution could be reduced."
"Availability is a problem."
"Snowflake needs to improve its programming part. Though the tool has Snowpath, it doesn’t support all features like its competitor, Databricks. Snowflake doesn’t support external data ingestion capabilities. You need to have third-party tools for that. Also, the tool needs to incorporate data integration features in its future releases."
"Maybe there could be some more connectors to other systems, but this is what they are constantly developing anyway."
"The cost is a bit high."
"They should improve the reporting tools."
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IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 92 reviews. IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0, while Snowflake 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 Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, Teradata, SQL Server and IBM Db2 Database, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and AWS Lake Formation. See our IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Snowflake report.
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