The solution has a yearly licensing fee, and users have to pay extra for support.

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. I believe that's why it is so expensive.

IBM offers great pricing on refurbished appliances. These appliances are just like new but can be negotiated to be offered at much lower prices.

From a cost per terabyte perspective, Netezza is definitely more expensive compared to Hive on Hadoop, but due to its simplicity and ANSI SQL Compliance and high performance which can be achieved with less tuning, it may be worth it.

It is a pretty expensive solution, but it is worth it for the right environment.

I am not able to give this information.

Comparisons with other solutions, including pricing and licensing, is as important as a PoC.

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.

This is a multi-million dollar product. The software and hardware are both IBM patented.

Netezza SQL ('nzsql') runs only on PDA systems, and cannot be installed on other enterprise-class servers. Power consumption is high and these systems must have mandatory IBM support, due to the patented and exclusive IBM hardware. However, the benefits outweigh the costs if you have large data volumes that require fast analysis on a day-to-day basis.

Netezza is an easy-to-use data warehouse appliance. It's extremely fast with a low cost and the customers run their BI and advanced analytics in a very flexible manner.

Compared to other MPP's, Netezza's pricing is quite reasonable considering long term business expansion with low maintenance cost.

One license and one support, also cheaper compared to other products.

Licensing is straightforward - you end up buying the box with Netezza on it as it's an appliance.