We performed a comparison between Amazon EMR 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."The initial setup is straightforward."
"The project management is very streamlined."
"The solution helps us manage huge volumes of data."
"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."
"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."
"We are using applications, such as Splunk, Livy, Hadoop, and Spark. We are using all of these applications in Amazon EMR and they're helping us a lot."
"It allows users to access the data through a web interface."
"The solution is scalable."
"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 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."
"The performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."
"The most valuable features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."
"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 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 most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."
"The problem for us is it starts very slow."
"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."
"Amazon EMR can improve by adding some features, such as megastore services and HiveServer2. Additionally, the user interface could be better, similar to what Apache service provides, cross-platform services."
"As people are shifting from legacy solutions to other technologies, Amazon EMR needs to add more features that give more flexibility in managing user data."
"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."
"The initial setup was time-consuming."
"There were times where they would release new versions and it seemed to end up breaking old versions, which is very strange."
"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."
"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."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"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."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"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."
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Amazon EMR is ranked 8th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 20 reviews while IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews. Amazon EMR is rated 7.8, while IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon EMR writes "Provides efficient data processing features and has good scalability ". 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 EMR is most compared with Snowflake, Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift and Apache Spark, whereas IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database, Snowflake, Teradata and SQL Server. See our Amazon EMR vs. IBM Netezza Performance Server report.
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