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."
"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."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"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."
"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."
"We have found that it is easy to develop and to do the analytics in the modules of data."
"We find the serverless tool to be the most valuable feature ."
"The most valuable feature is that you can suspend the computer if it is not being used, which means that you don't incur costs."
"We've had a good experience with technical support in general."
"Fills the gap between big data and classic data warehouses."
"The platform has multiple valuable use cases. They include performance, compatibility, flexibility, and cost."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility and that it's easy to use as an end-user compared to AWS."
"I like the keynotes and their simplicity. Like other Microsoft products, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is simple to understand and use."
"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 challenge anyone could have with Db2 Warehouse is their references or online resources and documentation. They are very, very, very limited on the web."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"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."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"It could be more stable."
"The solution should offer a serverless model like Snowflake."
"It's a complicated product."
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve its compatibility with Visual Studio. One of the challenges for people moving from an on-premise to a cloud solution, such as Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, is that you're constantly working in a browser. There are people that have been working for decades on desktop applications. For them to start working in a browser, it's quite a change. Allowing people to work and do their work inside Visual Studio than in the browser, would be a large advantage."
"Non-structured data is unavailable with this product."
"I would like to see better integration with Active Directory, because we have had problems, and we still do."
"It would be beneficial to take the top vendors and identify some kind of straightforward action to work with them. Instead of having to employ a separate vendor tool to be able to move this, it would be nice to be able to go through Microsoft."
"I would like my team to be able to build pipelines that integrate with the Azure Data Factory."
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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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