We performed a comparison between Amazon Redshift and IBM Netezza Performance Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have primarily used the Redshift Spectrum feature and found it most valuable."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its parallel processing capability. It can handle massive amounts of data, even when pushing hundreds of terabytes, and its scaling capabilities are good."
"The feature that we find most useful is the ability to do analytics on the fly."
"The most valuable feature is that the solution is fully embedded in the AWS stack."
"The initial setup of this solution is straightforward."
"The valuable features are performance, data compression, and scalability."
"The main benefit is that our portal for end users is running in AWS, so we can easily connect it to other AWS services."
"Amazon Redshift is very fast. It has really good response times. It's very user-friendly."
"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 most valuable features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."
"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."
"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."
"The performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."
"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."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution."
"Distribution concurrency control."
"Compatibility with other products, for example, Microsoft and Google, is a bit difficult because each one of them wants to be isolated with their solutions."
"The initial deployment was complex."
"In the next release, a pivot function would be a big help. It could save a lot of time creating a query or process to handle operations."
"Pricing is one of the things that it could improve. It should be more competitive."
"I would like to improve the pricing and the simplicity of using this solution."
"The solution is unable to work fast."
"Should be made available across zones, like other Multi-AZ solutions."
"They should provide a better way to work with interim data in a structured way than to store it in parquet files locally."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"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."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough."
"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."
"In terms of features that I would like to see, one is the ability to actually scale out an architecture. Right now, if you buy one, it's fixed. There is no scale-up availability at all."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
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Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 61 reviews while IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews. Amazon Redshift is rated 7.8, while IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Redshift writes "Provides one place where we can store data, and allows us to easily connect to other services with AWS". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Netezza Performance Server writes "A cost-effective data warehousing tool, but security features like TDE encryption are missing". Amazon Redshift is most compared with Teradata, Snowflake, AWS Lake Formation, Vertica and Yellowbrick Data Warehouse, whereas IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, Snowflake, Teradata and IBM Integrated Analytics System. See our Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Netezza Performance Server report.
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