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."Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"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."
"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."
"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."
"We also like governance. It looks at what the requirements are for the company to identify the best way to ensure compliance is met when you move to the cloud."
"The solution has been working well overall."
"Technical support is okay in terms of the help they provide."
"Synapse makes it easy to integrate and onboard data from other Microsoft and Azure sources. The interface is familiar because we were using Azure Data Factory before Synapse. It made the transition even easier because the Synapse interface is exactly the same."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and that it's easy to use as an end-user compared to AWS."
"It's feature-rich. It has a wide range of features."
"The main advantage of using this solution is its ability to scale and handle very large amounts of data, in the petabyte range."
"The integrated workspace in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics where everything comes together, such as Power BI and Data Factory, is very good. Additionally, the ability to do dedicated SQL pooling is a benefit."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"The areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."
"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."
"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."
"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"We encountered data processing and transformation issues while working with Apache Spark languages for the product."
"Integration with other products is an area that can be improved."
"It's pay as you go, so you never know what your bill is going to be beforehand, and that's scary for customers. If you have someone who makes a mistake and the program's a loop that is running all night, you could receive a very expensive bill."
"I am pretty sure that there are areas that need improvement but I just can think of them off the top of my head."
"The support and price could improve."
"One area that could be improved is the schema management."
"Real-time integration is hard to do in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics."
"The need to improve a little bit in terms of user-friendliness."
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IBM Db2 Warehouse is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 8 reviews while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 85 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse is rated 7.6, 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, Apache Hadoop and Azure Data Factory, 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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