We performed a comparison between IBM Netezza Performance Server and Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Distribution concurrency control."
"The most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."
"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."
"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 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."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution."
"The most valuable features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"We have complete control over our data."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The solution's integration is good."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It is a very stable database."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
"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."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"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."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"I would like to see better visualization features."
"SQL installation is pretty tricky. The scalability and customer support also should be improved."
"Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution."
"The query is slow if we don't optimize it."
"It needs more compatibility with common BI tools."
"Sometimes, the product requires rolling back to its previous version during a software update. This particular area could be enhanced."
"This solution would be improved with an option for in-memory data analysis."
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IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews. IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Netezza Performance Server writes "A cost-effective data warehousing tool, but security features like TDE encryption are missing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, Snowflake, Teradata and SQL Server, whereas Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Data Services. See our IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse report.
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