IBM Netezza Performance Server vs Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse comparison

IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse

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IBM Netezza Performance Server

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

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Cloud Data Warehouse (10th)

Featured Reviews

Shiv Subramaniam Koduvayur

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.

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Miodrag Milojevic

Senior Data Archirect at Yettel

A tool for data warehousing that offers scalability, stability, and ease of setup

The initial setup of Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is easy and basic, especially if one doesn't use the tricks to get Oracle Exadata for use. One doesn't need to know or be involved in technical stuff to do the setup since, at the least, knowledge might be required when working with some external connections, but it is easy because everything can be done within a couple of clicks. The solution is deployed on the cloud. For deployment, you don't need any technical guidance since you can sit, find it on the web, and prepare an Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse platform by yourself for free for a limited time. The people needed for the deployment and maintenance depend on the implementation one wants. If you do a simple implementation, you don't need anybody for maintenance since everything is on the cloud. You only have to schedule your backup or see if Oracle can schedule a backup, and you don't take care of the backup. For some more sophisticated or technical implementations, you will need staff for some data warehouse except for some parts of the maintenance like backup, patches, or upgrades since these are a few things you take care of in the background, and you only seek help with the maintenance part, if needed.

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Pros

"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."

"Distribution concurrency control."

"The most valuable feature would be the fact that it has been running for awhile in an appliance format."

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

"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."

"The most valuable features of the IBM Netezza Performance Server are the NPS server because of the reduced maintenance and overall good performance."

"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."

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

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"A very good integration feature that restricts access to unauthorized people."

"The product has self-repair features."

"I really like the auto-tuning, auto-scaling, and the automatic load balancing and query tuning in the system."

"It is an extremely scalable solution since you can dynamically change the resources as some other cloud solutions."

"The product is easy to use."

"The solution is self-securing. All data is encrypted and security updates and patches are applied automatically both periodically and off-cycle."

"The analytics have been very good. We've found them to be quite useful."

"The solution integrates well with Power BI."

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Cons

"The product cost is high compared to others in the market, and this cost has become unbearable for me."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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"Optimization should be better."

"The solution could be improved by allowing for migration tools from other cloud services, including migration from Amazon Redshift, RDS, and Aurora."

"I would like to see an on-premise solution in the future."

"My main suggestion for Oracle is the configuration and key values that come for JSON files. When we create a table, especially if you see in our RedShift or some other stuff, if I create a table on top of a JSON file with multiple array columns or superset columns, those column values create some difficulty in Oracle."

"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is not available as an on-premises solution."

"The setup is complex."

"They should make the solution more user-friendly."

"It doesn't work well when you have unstructured data or you need online analytics. It is not as nice as Hadoop in these aspects."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The price depends on the configuration we choose."

"You pay as you go, and you don't pay for services that you don't use."

"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."

"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse's pricing is fair and reasonable compared to the other cloud vendors."

"The solution's cost is reasonable."

"The cost is perfect with Oracle Universal credit."

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Comparison Review

it_user232068

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…

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Educational Organization

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Netezza Performance Server?

IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Netezza Performance Server?

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

What needs improvement with IBM Netezza Performance Server?

What do you like most about Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

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...

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.

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Amazon Redshift vs Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse

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Also Known As

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Overview

IBM Netezza appliances are now part of IBM PureSystems - expert integrated systems with built in expertise, integration by design and a simplified user experience. Part of the PureData family, the Netezza appliance is now known as the PureData System for Analytics. It has the same key design tenets of simplicity, speed, scalability and analytics power that was fundamental to Netezza appliances.

IBM

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is the world’s first and only autonomous database optimized for analytic workloads, including data marts, data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. With Autonomous Data Warehouse, data scientists, business analysts, and nonexperts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size and type. Built for the cloud and optimized using Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Data Warehouse benefits from faster performance and, according to an IDC report (PDF), lowers operational costs by an average of 63%.

Autonomous Database provides the foundation for a data lakehouse—a modern, open architecture that enables you to store, analyze, and understand all your data. The data lakehouse combines the power and richness of data warehouses with the breadth, flexibility, and low cost of popular open source data lake technologies. Access your data lakehouse through Autonomous Database using the world's most powerful and open SQL processing engine.

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Sample Customers

Seattle Childrens Hospital, Carphone Warehouse, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Battelle, Start Today Co. Ltd., Kelley Blue Book, Trident Marketing, Elisa Corporation, Catalina Marketing, iBasis, Barnes & Noble, Qualcomm, MediaMath, Acxiom, iBasis, Foxwoods

Hertz, TaylorMade Golf, Outront Media, Kingold, FSmart, Drop-Tank

IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse