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Actian ParAccel vs IBM Netezza Performance Server comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Actian ParAccel
Ranking in Data Warehouse
26th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Netezza Performance Server
Ranking in Data Warehouse
12th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Hadoop (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Actian ParAccel is 1.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Netezza Performance Server is 4.4%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Netezza Performance Server4.4%
Actian ParAccel1.5%
Other94.1%
Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

it_user263409 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
​The stability needs work and the leader node should be removed, but we can deliver results faster.
The speed of the application It has delivered results to our customers faster than we were able to previously. The stability needs work. I've used it for two years. It wasn't stable. There are issues. No issues yet. Customer Service: It's good. Technical Support: It's good. SQL Server…
Shiv Subramaniam Koduvayur - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at MAF Retail
Parallel data processing streamlines operations while cost and cloud integration challenge adoption
The cost of the solution is on the more expensive side, which is a concern for me. Additionally, its promotion and interaction with cloud applications are limited. The cloud version is only available in AWS, and in the Middle East, it is not well-developed in the Azure environment. For the cost to be reduced, it should match competitors. Many features need to be incorporated on the cloud.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It has delivered results to our customers faster than we were able to previously."
"Those reports were improved from a couple of hours to minutes."
"ROI is high because analyst productivity improved drastically."
"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."
"Query and process response times have improved resulting in customers being able to process and analyse more in less time."
"The performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."
"Distribution concurrency control."
"Speed contributes to large capacity."
"The ability to support a lot of complex queries to analyze rather big data sets at the same time is a valuable feature for us."
 

Cons

"The stability needs work."
"Data lineage on column or even object level does not exist, therefore external applications have to be used"
"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."
"Community support. There was none, or very little, especially when using add-on software (e.g. building functions, MapReduce, R, Lua, etc.)."
"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."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in this black box is not enough."
"We tried to install a newer version of NZA not supported by the version of Netezza we had and it did not work."
"The solution could implement more reporting tools and networking utilities."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The annual licensing fees are twenty-two percent of the product cost."
"Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."
"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."
"The solution has a yearly licensing fee, and users have to pay extra for support."
"For me, mainly, it reduces my costs. It's not only the appliance cost. There are also support costs and a maintenance costs. It does reduce the costs very drastically."
"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."
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Comparison Review

it_user232068 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 5, 2015
Netezza vs. Teradata
Original published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/should-i-choose-net Two leading Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architectures for Data Warehousing (DW) are IBM PureData System for Analytics (formerly Netezza) and Teradata. I thought talking about the similarities and differences…
 

Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
21%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise33
 

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What needs improvement with IBM Netezza Performance Server?
The cost of the solution is on the more expensive side, which is a concern for me. Additionally, its promotion and interaction with cloud applications are limited. The cloud version is only availab...
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The solution has generally received positive feedback from me and is recommended for continued use by end users. However, the product cost is high compared to others in the market, and this cost ha...
 

Also Known As

ParAccel
Netezza Performance Server, Netezza, Netezza Analytics
 

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Sample Customers

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