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 most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."
"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."
"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 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 most valuable features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."
"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."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"The solution has been reliable."
"It handles high volumes of data very well."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"The data transmissions between the data models is the most valuable feature."
"It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions."
"The most valuable feature for me is querying."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
"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."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
"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."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"The product does not have all of the features that the native products have."
"This solution would be improved with an option for in-memory data analysis."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"The product must provide more frequent updates."
"SQL installation is pretty tricky. The scalability and customer support also should be improved."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
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IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 2 reviews while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 12 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 "User-friendly UI and good support". IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Snowflake, Oracle Database, SQL Server and Teradata, whereas Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Greenplum. See our IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse report.
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