Amazon Redshift vs Netezza Analytics comparison

The compared Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM solutions aren't in the same category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #5 in CDW , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 7.4% mindshare in the category. IBM is ranked #10 in H , and holds a 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Amazon Redshift

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86% willing to recommend

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76% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Redshift

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Warehouse (5th)

Netezza Analytics

Average Rating

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Hadoop (10th)

Mindshare comparison

Amazon Redshift and Netezza Analytics aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Amazon Redshift is designed for Cloud Data Warehouse and holds a mindshare of 7.4%, down 8.9% compared to last year.
Netezza Analytics, on the other hand, focuses on Hadoop, holds 1.4% mindshare, up 1.2% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Ved Prakash Yadav

Senior Data Platform Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Works as a data warehouse system and collects data from different sources

In terms of improvement, I believe Amazon Redshift could work on reducing its costs, as they tend to increase significantly. Additionally, there are occasional issues with nodes going down, which can be problematic. We often encounter issues like someone dropping a column or changing the order of columns, which can cause synchronization problems when pushing data through our pipeline. It's a minor issue, but it can be annoying.

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Shiv Subramaniam Koduvayur

Project Manager at MAF Retail

A robust solution with good support, but a better GUI for database management is needed

The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this solution is that a lot of evaluation should be done before starting. Also, we needed to put a lot of effort into understanding the different functions that the product offers. This allows you to best leverage the capability of the product. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"With the tools we have, Amazon Redshift has the features to query efficiently."

"Redshift has an advantage when it comes to administration, making it easier to manage and collaborate."

"I am satisfied with the performance of the product."

"The most valuable feature is its scalability."

"I find the most valuable features to be the MPP style of processing, which mostly all of the data warehouses provide. The ability to integrate all other AWS services, such as NSS and S3, with little effort is very helpful. The service is well maintained, there are update patches frequently."

"The solution's speed, stability, and user concurrency have been very good."

"The ability to reload data multiple times at different times."

"I like the cost-benefit ratio, meaning that it is as easy to use as it is powerful and well-performing."

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"Speed contributes to large capacity."

"Data compression. It was relatively impressive. I think at some point we were getting 4:1 compression if not more."

"It is a back end for our SSIS, MicroStrategy,, Tableau. All of these are connecting to get the data. To do so we are also using our analytics which is built on the data."

"The performance of the solution is its most valuable feature. The solution is easy to administer as well. It's very user-friendly. On the technical side, the architecture is simple to understand and you don't need too many administrators to handle the solution."

"For me, as an end-user, everything that I do on the solution is simple, clear, and understandable."

"The most valuable feature is the performance."

"The need for administration involvement is quite limited on the solution."

Cons

"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."

"In the solution, user-based access is quite hard. In general, certain permissions are difficult to manage."

"The explain panel in the Redshift database could be better."

"In the next release, a pivot function would be a big help. It could save a lot of time creating a query or process to handle operations."

"It would be useful to have an option where all of the data can be queried at once and then have the result shown."

"Migrating data from other data sources can be challenging when you are working with multibyte character sets."

"The initial deployment was complex."

"AWS Snowflake has a very good feature for cloning databases. It makes it easy to clone a data warehouse, which is useful. I would like to see this feature in Redshift."

More Amazon Redshift cons

"In-DB processing with SAS Analytics, since this is supposed to be an analytics server so the expectation is there."

"The solution could implement more reporting tools and networking utilities."

"Disaster recovery support. Because it was an appliance, and if you wanted to support disaster recovery, you needed to buy two."

"The Analytics feature should be simplified."

"This product is being discontinued from IBM, and I would like to have some kind of upgrade available."

"Administration of this product is too tough. It's very complex because of the tools which it's missing."

"I'm not sure of IBM's roadmap currently, as the solution is coming up on its end of life."

"The hardware has a risk of failure. They need to improve this."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's not very pricey compared to other tools. I would rate the price as 5 out of 10."

"At the moment, pricing is a little bit on the higher side, although it depends on the size of the company."

"It is an expensive product."

"The product is cheap considering what it provides; I rate it five out of five for affordability."

"In comparison to the price of similar solutions, Redshift's cost is the lowest."

"The product is quite expensive."

"Per hour pricing is helpful to keep the costs of a pilot down, but long-term retention is expensive."

"I have heard complaints about the solution’s pricing, and thus I rate it as a five."

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"Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."

"The annual licensing fees are twenty-two percent of the product cost."

"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."

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Questions from the Community

How does Amazon Redshift compare with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

Amazon Redshift is very fast, has a very good response time, and is very user-friendly. The initial setup is very straightforward. This solution can merge and integrate well with many different dat...

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What do you like most about Amazon Redshift?

The tool's most valuable feature is its parallel processing capability. It can handle massive amounts of data, even when pushing hundreds of terabytes, and its scaling capabilities are good.

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The pricing of Amazon Redshift is expensive.

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Overview

Amazon Redshift is a fully administered, petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse service. Users are able to begin with a minimal amount of gigabytes of data and can easily scale up to a petabyte or more as needed. This will enable them to utilize their own data to develop new intuitions on how to improve business processes and client relations.

Initially, users start to develop a data warehouse by initiating what is called an Amazon Redshift cluster or a set of nodes. Once the cluster has been provisioned, users can seamlessly upload data sets, and then begin to perform data analysis queries. Amazon Redshift delivers super-fast query performance, regardless of size, utilizing the exact SQL-based tools and BI applications that most users are already working with today.

The Amazon Redshift service performs all of the work of setting up, operating, and scaling a data warehouse. These tasks include provisioning capacity, monitoring and backing up the cluster, and applying patches and upgrades to the Amazon Redshift engine.

Amazon Redshift Functionalities

Amazon Redshift has many valuable key functionalities. Some of its most useful functionalities include:

Cluster administration: The Amazon Redshift cluster is a group of nodes that contains a leader node and one (or more) compute node(s). The compute nodes needed are dependent on the data size, amount of queries needed, and the query execution functionality desired.
Cluster snapshots: Snapshots are backups of a cluster from an exact point in time. Amazon Redshift offers two types of snapshots: manual and automated. Amazon will store these snapshots internally in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) utilizing an SSL connection. Whenever a Snapshot restore is needed, Amazon Redshift will create a new cluster and will import data from the snapshot as directed.
Cluster access: Amazon Redshift provides several intuitive features to help define connectivity rules, encrypt data and connections, and control the overall access of your cluster.
IAM credentials and AWS accounts: The Amazon Redshift cluster is only accessible by the AWS account that created the cluster. This automatically secures the cluster and keeps it safe. Inside the AWS account, users access the AWS Identity and IAM protocol to create additional user accounts and manage permissions, granting specified users the desired access needed to control cluster performance.
Encryption: Users have the option to choose to encrypt the clusters for additional added security once the cluster is provisioned. When encryption is enabled, Amazon Redshift will store all the data in user-created tables in a secure encrypted format. To manage Amazon Redshift encryption keys, users will access AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

Reviews from Real Users

“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.” - Kundan A., Senior Consultant at Dynamic Elements AS

“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. They have enriched and elaborate documentation that is helpful.”- Aishwarya K., Solution Architect at Capgemini

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