We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Warehouse and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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."It can be mounted on the cloud, which is a huge plus. If the client, for example, starts small with on-premise deployment and then it rapidly needs to grow, we can transfer this to the cloud easily."
"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."
"I think it scales really well and as long as you take enough time to learn a little bit about it, it works really well."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"The solution is stable."
"The useability, the user interface, is very user-friendly."
"Scaling this solution is easy and the uptime is okay."
"The stability is pretty good."
"I like SQL post, which is for storage and distributed computing. Another good feature is the copy activity."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is its ability to integrate well with other services offered by Azure."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability."
"The most valuable feature is the level of processing power, and being able to complete tasks in parallel."
"The features most valuable are the simplicity, how easy it is to create a dashboard from different information systems."
"There were some initial challenges with IBM Db2 Warehouse about eight months ago when I worked in this environment. When I coordinated with IBM support, they mentioned that the memory was insufficient for our needs. Our business environment required significantly more memory than the previous cluster could provide. Consequently, we have worked closely with on-site IBM technical personnel to address this issue."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."
"The areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"The biggest problems we have is when the backup solution is failing or slow and we run out of log space, which has happened probably a couple of times in the last four years."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."
"The biggest challenge anyone could have with Db2 Warehouse is their references or online resources and documentation. They are very, very, very limited on the web."
"If I'm looking for something good in the cloud, I would want it to have better standard connectors."
"It would be of interest to improve things like the web service integration and availability in terms of being easy to create internal web services in the database."
"More integration is needed to improve the product for the future."
"Indicating what areas need improvement in this solution is a difficult question because the organizations that I am working for are really new in this area. However, an even better more simple interface, or perhaps an extension of a connector app store solution, would be helpful."
"The initial setup is complex."
"One area for improvement could be better integration with Power BI, as well as data integration with BW."
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics can improve by increasing the size of the files that we can load on the platform. We have some files that are too large to be loaded and it would be a benefit to us if the limit was increased. Additionally, the way we use the tool for generating reports can be made better. They should add some drag-and-drop rules without the need of programming these rules using some programming language. It would be helpful if we did not need someone that was technically advanced to be able to do it with, such as someone with no IT background. Having a reporting tool without code would be great."
"While the solution is flexible, sometimes this works against the user."
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IBM Db2 Warehouse is ranked 12th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 86 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Warehouse writes "Useful for ETL process and has good documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". IBM Db2 Warehouse is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud and IBM Netezza Performance Server, whereas Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Teradata. See our IBM Db2 Warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics report.
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