IBM Netezza Performance Server Stability

Shemal Gandhi - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Oracle DBA | IBM Neteeza Admin | Consultant at Capgemini

IBM Netezza Performance Server has good stability.

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AT
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.

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it_user373929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database and DataWarehouse Specialist - Oracle and Netezza at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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GD
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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SL
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. 

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it_user365241 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Netezza was one of the components in our application. This component had the least number of issues

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it_user365262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer Professional Markets (Manager) at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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LS
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No, I haven´t found any issues.

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AS
Senior Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not have any stability issues.

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FP
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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KS
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.

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it_user685353 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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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SD
Solution Lead at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user718284 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - Data Quality and Governance with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is stable. We use it in our data warehousing complex, and the performance is good.

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it_user374055 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Warehouse Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stability comes and goes. Every software upgrade removes some problems, but introduces others. None have been critical, though.

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it_user365232 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Centre Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

A blade failure at the commissioning stage, but the box (and predecessors) have been extremely stable and provides us with lots of scalability.

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it_user365643 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't had any issues.

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it_user346242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Consultant (Netezza/Big Data) at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Not much, IBM guys are quite professional and ready to help with every bit and piece.

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it_user347586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user379629 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's reliable and available, with 99.99% uptime.

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it_user373134 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI/BA Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is generally a reliable and stable platform.

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it_user364464 - PeerSpot reviewer
Member of the Board of Directors at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Netezza does not perform well with a significant volume of individual record operations. Netezza is designed specifically for set based operations.

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it_user857862 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's pretty good when it works. It's pretty stable overall. But if you have a problem, support is a nightmare.

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it_user776508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Business Intelligence Analyst at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user685368 - PeerSpot reviewer
QlikView Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

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it_user255891 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user357468 - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Support Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered with stability.

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it_user669453 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Warehouse Architect at a consultancy

Great stability in Netazza's Mako.

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it_user351462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect/Modeler with 501-1,000 employees

We found some bugs - boundary conditions mostly.

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