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 Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's flexibility is its most valuable feature. It's also easy to scale and has relatively painless pricing."
"Redshift's versioning and data security are the two most critical features. When migrating into the cloud, it's vital to secure the data. The encryption and security are there."
"For the on-premises version of Amazon Redshift, we need to start from scratch. However, with the cloud version whenever you want to deploy, you can scale up, and down, and it has a data warehousing capability. Redshift has many features."
"It allows you write complex queries and perform row by row processes."
"I have primarily used the Redshift Spectrum feature and found it most valuable."
"The product offers good support for the data lake."
"You can copy JSON to the column and have it analyzed using simple functions."
"The processing of data is very fast."
"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 performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution."
"Distribution concurrency control."
"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."
"Redshift's GUI could be more user-friendly. It's easier to perform queries and all that stuff in Azure Synapse Analytics."
"They should provide a better way to work with interim data in a structured way than to store it in parquet files locally."
"The customer support could be more responsive."
"It lacks a few features which can be very useful, such as stored procedures"
"The product could be improved by making it more flexible."
"In the solution, user-based access is quite hard. In general, certain permissions are difficult to manage."
"Planting is the primary key enforcement that should be improved."
"It would be useful to have an option where all of the data can be queried at once and then have the result shown."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"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."
"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."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."
"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."
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Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 58 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 AWS Lake Formation, Snowflake, Teradata, Vertica and Apache Hadoop, 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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