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IBM Netezza Performance Server vs Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

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 (12th), Hadoop (6th)
Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (13th)
 

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.
Kwajah Mohiuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Head of Architecture at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Provides self-repair features, but the setup is complex
We use the product for online applications. We use it in the financial industry The product has self-repair features. The tool tunes itself. It separates compute from storage. We can scale storage and compute separately. The setup is complex. Oracle is a complex tool. I have been using Oracle…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"The performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."
"Bottom line, Netezza costs less to own and operate, and is easier to manage."
"Query and process response times have improved resulting in customers being able to process and analyse more in less time."
"Data compression. It was relatively impressive. I think at some point we were getting 4:1 compression if not more."
"The most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."
"Netezza provides outstanding performance for structured data."
"This is one of the most stable and fastest data warehouse appliances available in the market today."
"One advantage is that if you already have an Oracle Database, it easily integrates with that."
"The product has self-repair features."
"The performance and scalability are awesome."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"With Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, things are much simpler. Creating a structure, initializing the servers, extending the servers, those are all things that are very, very easy. That's the main reason we use it."
"The solution is self-securing. All data is encrypted and security updates and patches are applied automatically both periodically and off-cycle."
"Self-patching and runs machine-learning across its logs all the time"
"I really like the auto-tuning, auto-scaling, and the automatic load balancing and query tuning in the system."
 

Cons

"It is not designed to process a huge volume of data."
"The query optimization is crap, and the machine could use more alerting around bad design and bad queries."
"The Analytics feature should be simplified."
"Since it is an appliance, individual components within the appliance cannot be scaled."
"In Aginity there should be a way to format the SQL queries."
"After being acquired by IBM, support has not been as responsive, but there weren't as many issues as the box was stable."
"I can't extend the storage, only up to 6x compress of data."
"The scalability is not good. They claim it's scalable but it's not, especially in comparison with other solutions."
"The initial setup was pretty complex. It was not easy."
"It is good as data warehouses go, but it is not that good for really big data."
"The setup is complex."
"I would like to see an on-premise solution in the future."
"A lot of the tools that were previously there have now been taken away."
"I would like to see Application Express and Oracle R Enterprise fully supported, and I would like to see Oracle Data Mining supported as a front end."
"The solution lacks visibility options."
"It is very important the integration with other platforms be made to be as easy as it is with an on-premises deployment."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 annual licensing fees are twenty-two percent of the product cost."
"Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."
"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."
"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."
"The cost is perfect with Oracle Universal credit."
"The solution's cost is reasonable."
"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."
"In terms of architecture and pricing structure, I feel it is a little bit costly compared to Azure. It's fine compared to RedShift, but compared to Azure, it's a bit pricey when you calculate for one TB storage plus around five hours of reporting with the frequency of 1TB data. The cost adds up, making Oracle a bit expensive."
"Cloud solutions are cheaper, but in the long run, they may not be much cheaper. They certainly have a lower initial cost. The licensing is yearly, and it is based on the size of the hardware and the number of users."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."
"You pay as you go, and you don't pay for services that you don't use."
"The price depends on the configuration we choose."
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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
Financial Services Firm
17%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Media Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise33
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support.
What needs improvement with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not supported, which is not ideal.
What is your primary use case for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
We are using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse for analytics in my company.
 

Also Known As

Netezza Performance Server, Netezza, Netezza Analytics
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Sample Customers

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