We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Warehouse and Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse 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."It can be mounted on the cloud, which is a huge plus. If the client, for example, starts small with on-premise deployment and then it rapidly needs to grow, we can transfer this to the cloud easily."
"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."
"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"I think it scales really well and as long as you take enough time to learn a little bit about it, it works really well."
"It is a very stable database."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"The data transmissions between the data models is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature for me is querying."
"Tools like the BI and SAS are excellent."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse integrates beautifully with other Microsoft ecosystem products."
"The biggest problems we have is when the backup solution is failing or slow and we run out of log space, which has happened probably a couple of times in the last four years."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"The areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"The biggest challenge anyone could have with Db2 Warehouse is their references or online resources and documentation. They are very, very, very limited on the web."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."
"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"The query is slow if we don't optimize it."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"In the future I would love to see a slightly better automation engine, just for the data integration layer, to make it slightly easier for end-users or junior developers to get involved in incremental updating."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
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IBM Db2 Warehouse is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 8 reviews while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Warehouse writes "Useful for ETL process and has good documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". IBM Db2 Warehouse is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Apache Hadoop and IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud, whereas Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake. See our IBM Db2 Warehouse vs. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse report.
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