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IBM Netezza Performance Server vs Microsoft Azure DocumentDB comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Netezza Performance Server
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (11th), Hadoop (6th)
Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (13th), NoSQL Databases (15th)
 

Featured Reviews

Shiv Subramaniam Koduvayur - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at MAF Retail
Parallel data processing streamlines operations while cost and cloud integration challenge adoption
The cost of the solution is on the more expensive side, which is a concern for me. Additionally, its promotion and interaction with cloud applications are limited. The cloud version is only available in AWS, and in the Middle East, it is not well-developed in the Azure environment. For the cost to be reduced, it should match competitors. Many features need to be incorporated on the cloud.
Anish-Anand - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Professional at Happiest Minds
Reporting for global banking stakeholders has become seamless and supports diverse visual formats
All Microsoft applications, whether database or analytics, are a little costlier compared to Google products, and this is a barrier that needs to be crossed so that all its applications become more affordable. For example, startups typically go for free tools. Microsoft should offer these products for free to startups or perhaps free for the first year or two years, so that startups can use these applications, and once they grow bigger and have larger revenue, they can purchase it at a reasonable cost. All Microsoft tools need to cut down on their price and have a better strategy around pricing for the masses. If you sell only to ten customers, your revenue is lesser, but if you give something for free to some customers, two years down the line they will purchase it. Microsoft Azure DocumentDB still needs the ability to connect to other analytics easily without any additional integrator. For example, if I can connect to Google Analytics or other analytics that are not Microsoft tools using this database, that would be a good source of revenue. If I have already purchased Google Analytics in my company and I need a database, and Microsoft Azure DocumentDB can very easily connect or integrate to my Google Analytics, I would not have to think twice. Cross-company application connectivity is something that needs to be worked on.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"With a field-programmable gate array, it has the capabilities to do arithmetic calculations at memory level."
"Distribution concurrency control."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"The most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."
"We had a lot of POC's on a data warehousing project with the help of Netezza, we have proved that it has really improved time on doing analytics."
"Netezza is an easy-to-use data warehouse appliance; it's extremely fast with a low cost and the customers run their BI and advanced analytics in a very flexible manner."
"Distribution (no index or partition), built-in analytics is a major advantange."
"ARULES() function is the fastest implementation of the associations algorithm (a priori or tree) I have worked with, and in comparison with the R associations package, it is +1000x faster."
"Microsoft Azure DocumentDB has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to reduce database costs by 30%."
"Microsoft Azure DocumentDB is never down because of its scalability feature."
"We have immeasurable benefits mainly in reduced operational effort and the time saved on routine database administration."
"One of the most appreciated aspects of Microsoft Azure DocumentDB is the elastic scaling feature which has significantly helped manage business growth for two customers who have employed it, experiencing a dramatic rise in improvement."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure DocumentDB in my daily work is the speed."
"The most beneficial features of Microsoft Azure DocumentDB that I noticed is that it appeared to be straightforward, it was ease of use, it was not complicated compared to some of the other tools that are out there, the teams were familiar with it, and it integrated well with other Microsoft products."
 

Cons

"Since it is an appliance, individual components within the appliance cannot be scaled."
"It is not designed to process a huge volume of data."
"The scalability is not as expected. The capacity in this black box is not enough."
"Integration with XML is still not there for nzload utility."
"Matching up with big data. Netezza has been built only for OLAP and structured data, and I think IBM must do something to match it to Hadoop scalability."
"Application development in Netezza is done using SQL scripts and stored procedures."
"The scalability is not good. They claim it's scalable but it's not, especially in comparison with other solutions."
"We tried to install a newer version of NZA not supported by the version of Netezza we had and it did not work."
"Microsoft gives you the base functionality which you can grow from, but some tools perhaps go a bit further because that is their only focus or niche."
"Microsoft Azure DocumentDB could be improved with more straightforward cost and performance optimization guidance, especially for understanding resource usage and selecting the right configuration for different workloads."
"Maybe in the future, I would like to see relationships between one document set and another document set."
"It is a bit expensive, especially concerning the elastic scale."
"All Microsoft applications, whether database or analytics, are a little costlier compared to Google products, and this is a barrier that needs to be crossed so that all its applications become more affordable."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"The solution has a yearly licensing fee, and users have to pay extra for support."
"Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."
"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."
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Comparison Review

it_user232068 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 5, 2015
Netezza vs. Teradata
Original published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/should-i-choose-net Two leading Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architectures for Data Warehousing (DW) are IBM PureData System for Analytics (formerly Netezza) and Teradata. I thought talking about the similarities and differences…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
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Company Size

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Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise33
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with IBM Netezza Performance Server?
The cost of the solution is on the more expensive side, which is a concern for me. Additionally, its promotion and interaction with cloud applications are limited. The cloud version is only availab...
What advice do you have for others considering IBM Netezza Performance Server?
The solution has generally received positive feedback from me and is recommended for continued use by end users. However, the product cost is high compared to others in the market, and this cost ha...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure DocumentDB?
I think perhaps in some aspects the documentation could be better, as well as the integration with Azure Backup to improve Microsoft Azure DocumentDB.
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Azure DocumentDB?
My main use case for Microsoft Azure DocumentDB is when we modernize applications that use MongoDB on-premise and move them to Azure using DocumentDB. By doing this migration to Microsoft Azure Doc...
 

Also Known As

Netezza Performance Server, Netezza, Netezza Analytics
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