We performed a comparison between IBM Netezza Performance Server and Teradata 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."
"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."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution."
"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 features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."
"Teradata is a great, industry-leading data warehousing product that has MPP architecture."
"It has reduced a lot of reworking on maintaining indexes, partitions, etc."
"We did performance testing. We had a set of real life MicroStrategy reports. Our conditions were: Not allowed to redesign data model, not allowed to rewrite the queries, all queries should be generated by MicroStrategy, no aggregates. Teradata appeared to be way faster than a similarly configured (in terms of hardware) Oracle server."
"We really enjoy the FastLoad, TPump, and MultiLoad features."
"The flexibility in design is very good."
"The two types of partitioning have been very significant for us - row and columnar partitioning."
"Their extensive experience in data warehousing, the platform's performance, and their strong reputation in the market are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Teradata is the quick processing of large data."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see more integration with many different types of data."
"The capability to implement it with comparable performance across various private cloud environments, ensuring adaptability to different infrastructure setups would be beneficial."
"Needs compatibility with more Big Data platforms."
"The increasing volumes of data demand more and more performance."
"Since I was working on the very basic, legacy systems, the memory thing was always a challenge. If Teradata is moving to the cloud, the space constraint or the memory issue that my company generally faces will eventually resolve, in time. What I'd like to see in the next release of Teradata is that it becomes full-fledged on the cloud, apart from better connectivity to various systems. For example, if I have to read or include a Python script, if I write some basic codes, I should be able to read even unstructured data. I know that it's not supported even in Snowflake, but at least semi-structured data support, if that can be a little more enhanced, that would be good."
"Teradata should focus on functionality for building predictive models because, in that regard, it can definitely improve."
"It could use some more advanced analytics relating to structured and semi-structured data."
"Limited interest and success in some areas make us hesitate about upgrading."
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IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 54 reviews. IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0, while Teradata 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 Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, Snowflake, SQL Server and IBM Db2 Database, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, MySQL and Teradata Cloud Data Warehouse. See our IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Teradata report.
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