We performed a comparison between Amazon Redshift and IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 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."It's scalable because it's on the cloud."
"It allows for the storage of huge amounts of data."
"The most valuable feature is its scalability."
"The ability to reload data multiple times at different times."
"The product offers good support for the data lake."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Redshift is its ability to handle really large sets of data."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to set up and easy to connect the many tools that connect to it."
"Easy to build out our snowflake design and load data."
"The performance is okay as long as the volume of queries is not too high."
"It will be MPP, so performance should improve."
"The way that it scales will help a lot of customers that are stuck with Netezza boxes that can't grow any larger."
"Amazon Redshift could improve the user interface support."
"The explain panel in the Redshift database could be better."
"The OLAP slide and dice features need to be improved."
"I would like to improve the pricing and the simplicity of using this solution."
"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."
"There is some missing functionality and sometimes it's so difficult to work in. We need to convert these functionalities using VACUUM inside Amazon Redshift and then it causes some complexity."
"Running parallel queries results in poor performance and this needs to be improved."
"It takes a lot of time to ingest and update the data."
"Tech support for dashDB is awful. We usually have tickets open for three to four weeks."
"Containers get corrupted very easily. Restoring them using GPFS can result in a lot of issues."
"Ultimately, the product itself has challenges and we are not currently satisfied with the support, either."
"Right now, we are implementing on ESX VMware 6.0. Support for this platform is poor. Also, one of the backup/recovery options is broken and IBM is not addressing the issue."
Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 61 reviews while IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is ranked 15th in Cloud Data Warehouse. Amazon Redshift is rated 7.8, while IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is rated 7.6. 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 Db2 Warehouse on Cloud writes "The "prefetch" feature anticipates needed data and keeps it available. BLU acceleration determines what data is unqualified for analysis and skips it". Amazon Redshift is most compared with Teradata, Vertica, Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and AWS Lake Formation, whereas IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is most compared with IBM Db2 Warehouse, IBM Netezza Performance Server and Snowflake. See our Amazon Redshift vs. IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud report.
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