We performed a comparison between IBM Netezza Performance Server and Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse 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."
"The most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."
"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."
"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 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."
"Distribution concurrency control."
"It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse integrates beautifully with other Microsoft ecosystem products."
"The most valuable feature is the business intelligence (BI) part of it."
"I like Data Warehouse's data integrity features. Data integrity is what databases are made for as opposed to spreadsheets."
"The solution has been reliable."
"The data transmissions between the data models is the most valuable feature."
"The solution's integration is good."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."
"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."
"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."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough."
"I would like the ability to do more real-time type updates instead of batch-oriented updates."
"The only issue with the product is that the process is very slow when we have a huge amount of data."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"This solution would be improved with an option for in-memory data analysis."
"I would like to see better visualization features."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"It needs more compatibility with common BI tools."
"The query is slow if we don't optimize it."
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IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews. IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6. 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 Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, Snowflake, Teradata and SQL Server, whereas Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake. See our IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse report.
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