IBM Db2 Database vs IBM Netezza Performance Server comparison

"IBM Db2 Database has good performance."

"Reliable, robust with great features."

"Db2 database scalability and performance capabilities match our database needs. It covers pretty much everything a database administrator or engineer might need."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with other IBM products."

"The solution is very stable, in both hardware and database."

"I like that its true active-active. For example, if there are two instances within a cluster, we can take one of them down and there's no failover or switch over. There's no primary and secondary, it's true active-active. We can take one side down and we can upgrade that with new maintenance or a new version, obviously testing coexistence beforehand, without impacting the business."

"it is very stable and runs smoothly once it is deployed and it is almost maintenance-free."

"Very good for performance and scalability."

"The performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."

"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 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."

"IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution."

"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."

"Distribution concurrency control."

"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."

"Parallel data processing is a significant feature for me."

"IBM's support isn't as strong as it used to be, especially when it comes to providing fixes."

"Some of the internal rearrangement in the administration is not as straightforward as it is in competing products."

"The queries can be difficult for beginners because there are so many. I would like to see more use cases for flow analysis that enable us to correlate the flow with events. Adding this feature in a QI format would be good for beginners."

"The solution's UI hasn't been upgraded. The solution’s UI is an area to improve because the solution was developed long ago."

"I would like to see some artificial intelligence brought into the solution."

"The solution could improve by providing more integration."

"End-to-end encryption specifically is something the solution needs to have in the next release."

"Microsoft SQL Server is comparatively very simple to use. I wish IBM would move towards making Db2 easy to use for both basic and advanced users. This is where I see room for advancement. Db2 is also more expensive than Microsoft SQL Server, and its price can be reduced. The replication feature needs to be there in Db2. Microsoft provides similar functionality in SQL Server. IBM also has similar functionality, but it exists in a different product. So, to have the replication ability, you have to buy a different product. It makes sense to have this functionality within Db2 instead of a different product. It will also be helpful in terms of competition. In Africa, the problem for Db2 is competition. Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server have been in this market for a very long time. These companies have built the ecosystem and the brand within this market for a very long time. So, they are very popular with users. Db2 or IBM came a little later in the game, and that's where the problem lies. They also don't do a lot of marketing for it, which is also a problem."

"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."

"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in the black box is not enough."

"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."

"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."

"The only issue is that it's not expandable."

"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."

"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."

"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."

"I would rate the pricing a five out of ten. It's not super expensive, but also not cheap."

"It is expensive."

"They are competitive and honest (compared to how peer firms approach licensing conversations). ​"

"Clients are required to purchase a license."

"The total cost of the solution depends upon the PVU licensing"

"We don't see what the specific price of the DB2 license is because we pay for the backup license as a package."

"The solution's hardware and subscription model for support are very expensive."

"It is expensive when compared to other products."

"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."

"The solution has a yearly licensing fee, and users have to pay extra for support."

"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."