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"The performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly.""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.""IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution.""Distribution concurrency control.""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.""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 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 most valuable features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."

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"Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard.""The best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases.""This is a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy."

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"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.""Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat.""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.""The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough.""The only issue is that it's not expandable.""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."

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"From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera.""The product should be simplified for the average user.""It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."

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  • "Netezza is a costly solution. It does serve a specific purpose but it's costlier than what's available in the market, if you go to the cloud."
  • "The pricing is very expensive. It has a lot CPUs with a lot of components in it. It also has built-in redundancy for resiliency reasons."
  • "The solution has a yearly licensing fee, and users have to pay extra for support."
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  • "Oracle's prices are too high compared to others in the market."
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    Top Answer:IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution.
    Top Answer:The solution has a yearly licensing fee, and users have to pay extra for support.
    Top Answer:Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server.
    Top Answer:Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard.
    Top Answer:From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera. Oracle could also improve Big Data… more »
    Top Answer:I use Big Data Appliance to have a single source of truth for my data and to keep all my data in one place.
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    Netezza Performance Server, Netezza
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    Overview
    IBM Netezza appliances are now part of IBM PureSystems - expert integrated systems with built in expertise, integration by design and a simplified user experience. Part of the PureData family, the Netezza appliance is now known as the PureData System for Analytics. It has the same key design tenets of simplicity, speed, scalability and analytics power that was fundamental to Netezza appliances.

    Oracle Big Data Appliance is a flexible, high-performance, secure platform for running diverse workloads on Hadoop and NoSQL systems. With Oracle Big Data SQL, Oracle Big Data Appliance extends Oracle’s industry-leading implementation of SQL to Hadoop and NoSQL systems. By combining the newest technologies from the Hadoop ecosystem and powerful Oracle SQL capabilities together on a single pre-configured platform, Oracle Big Data Appliance is uniquely able to support rapid development of new Big Data applications and tight integration with existing relational data.

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    IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews while Oracle Big Data Appliance is ranked 12th in Data Warehouse with 5 reviews. IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0, while Oracle Big Data Appliance is rated 8.0. 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 Oracle Big Data Appliance writes "Fast, and you don't need technical expertise to use it and produce results". IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Snowflake, Oracle Database, SQL Server and Teradata, whereas Oracle Big Data Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Apache Hadoop, Teradata and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.

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