IBM Netezza Performance Server Scalability

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

More than 100 users are using IBM Netezza Performance Server in our organization.

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AT
Database Admin. Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have come to the point where we need to watch out for our capacity, as we are adding more users onboard with Netezza. 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.

We are looking at the cloud approach, but we still have applications on-premise that we have to support.

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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

Since it is an appliance, individual components within the appliance cannot be scaled. Scaling would mean buying the next generation of the appliance.

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GD
data governance manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Every query is a full table scan. If the table contains mostly integers, then performance is good. If the number of users is in the thousands, then it may be better to use cubes or other solutions to service reporting needs.

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SL
ASE at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of the IBM Netezza Performance Server is good.

We have more than 5,000 users using IBM Netezza Performance Server indirectly. We use BI tools, such as Oracle OBIEE vs QlikView which we use to develop reports and these tools connect to IBM Netezza Performance Server.

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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

Scalability is fixed. It’s big, but not at all scalable.

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it_user17130 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Enterprise Data & Analytics Infrastructure/DBA at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Netezza does not scale like other databases, so it cannot run several queries at once.

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

Yes. If the Demand for clock or disk space grow over the limit, it will be necessary to change the appliance, because it's not possible to upgrade any component of this machine. You have to buy a new one with a bigger capacity.

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

It is not designed to process a huge volume of data.

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FP
Business Unit technical Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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KS
Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

If I was using TwinFin appliances, if my data grew to the limit that TwinFin supports, obviously I would have to buy a new appliance. I cannot just ask them to increase the memory or increase the storage or the CPUs. That would cost me another appliance. If our business side agreed to that, I would keep using Netezza and buy a bigger appliance, I'm okay with that. But the expandability is not there.

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

We had scalability issues. Storage, although high, is limited depending on the rack configuration. For example, an N3001-80, which is an eight-rack Mako Server and also the top end model with the highest storage capacity, can store a maximum of 384TB. Should your data exceed this limit, the storage cannot be extended. You will have to purchase a new appliance.

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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

The scalability is not as expected. It is shipped to you as an appliance, a black box. If you want to expand it, you have to get an extra CD,or whatever, and they come and program something int he box to release extra bits. If this were a cloud product, you could just expand and subtract as you wish. The capacity in this black box is not enough.

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

There were no issues with the scalability.

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

We've not experienced 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

There were no issues with the scalability.

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

There were no issues scaling it.

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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

Scalability is not possible.

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

For scalability, we're still in process - half the business is still not on this data warehouse, the company is also moving over to a different production system - so the scalability, we'll really see throughout this year, as the rest of the business gets migrated over to that new production system, and that data will be falling into the Netezza data warehouse platform. So for scalability, it's a little too soon to really give an answer yet.

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

I can't extend the storage, only up to 6x compress of data. You need to plan this when selecting the right product to buy.

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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 scalability.

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it_user669453 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Warehouse Architect at a consultancy

As of now, no issues with scalability. But like Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance.

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

There are no issues with scalability.

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