IBM Netezza Performance Server Stability
IBM Netezza Performance Server has good stability.
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Reviewer232198
Database Admin. Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability-wise, the product has improved. Netezza has improved the product over the past 10 years. We now have better monitoring and can be more proactive about detecting issues.
View full review »The appliance is stable for the most part. All components have fail-over/spare components built-in. Any failed component is replaced within 24 hours by IBM support.
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business650640
data governance manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The database runs stable unless there are hundreds of queries running in parallel.
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reviewer1925472
ASE at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
IBM Netezza Performance Server has a very good uptime rate. We do not have a lot of servers crashing, it is a high-availability solution.
View full review »Netezza was one of the components in our application. This component had the least number of issues
View full review »Releases from IBM are poorly tested, but once they work once, they’re stable – i.e., the machine only goes down immediately after an upgrade.
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Leonardo Salvino
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
No, I haven´t found any issues.
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Ariovaldo Santos
Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not have any stability issues.
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solution306072
Business Unit technical Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Netezza servers used to have disk issues in the early days, however, for the most part this has been addressed.
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Kapil Sharma
Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
As a database administrator, and in warehousing part for the last 12 years, we always have stability issues in every technology. So the issue is how well they support their product. IBM does support their product very well. We have had issues where there were queries that were generating billions of rows. It's all about how you understand the underlying architecture. The coder who understands the architecture can write a better query. We sometimes need to educate them. So there are always stability issues but not in terms of hardware or support. It's always how well you write your queries.
If you don't know Netezza, if you don't SQL or you don't know the underlying architecture but you are a good SQL developer, you know all the business logic and you write a query - but it is not actually performing - it's because you have not understood the distribution part of it. You need to consider the distribution keys or the organization keys. That makes the difference.
The stability doesn't depend on the hardware, it depends on your coding in SQL.
View full review »We rarely had stability issues. You may expect an average of one outage every two months for a few minutes, if it is maintained properly. This is mostly due to “pollreplytimeout” errors of the SPU.
All the rack components are dual for redundancy. Almost all components have failsafe/backup, including the host that is configured in cluster for high availability. With this, the system is up and running all the time, or you can get it up at the earliest possible time in case of component failures/system down situations.
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Santosh K Dash
Solution Lead at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »It is stable. We use it in our data warehousing complex, and the performance is good.
View full review »Stability comes and goes. Every software upgrade removes some problems, but introduces others. None have been critical, though.
View full review »A blade failure at the commissioning stage, but the box (and predecessors) have been extremely stable and provides us with lots of scalability.
View full review »We haven't had any issues.
View full review »Not much, IBM guys are quite professional and ready to help with every bit and piece.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »It's reliable and available, with 99.99% uptime.
View full review »It is generally a reliable and stable platform.
View full review »Netezza does not perform well with a significant volume of individual record operations. Netezza is designed specifically for set based operations.
View full review »It's pretty good when it works. It's pretty stable overall. But if you have a problem, support is a nightmare.
View full review »I would say it's very stable. Whenever we have any sort of outage, the hardware team always communicates it, and it's been months since we've had any sort of outage, outside of the standard maintenance window. There have never really been any issues there. Stability has been good.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with stability.
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View full review »No issues encountered with stability.
View full review »Great stability in Netazza's Mako.
View full review »We found some bugs - boundary conditions mostly.
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