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IBM Netezza Performance Server vs Snowflake Analytics comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.1
IBM Netezza Performance Server improves data query speed and efficiency, enhancing business performance and cost savings through compression.
Sentiment score
5.3
Snowflake Analytics improves efficiency and cost management, though ROI varies; users often see notable time and cost savings.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.4
IBM Netezza Performance Server praised for knowledgeable support; mixed feedback on resolution speed post-acquisition, yet communication remains consistent.
Sentiment score
6.9
Snowflake Analytics support is praised for responsiveness and professionalism but criticized for occasional delays and access issues.
Technical support is very costly for me, accounting for twenty-five to thirty percent of the product cost.
Project Manager at MAF Retail
Recently we had a two-day session where the Snowflake Analytics team provided a demo on Cortex AI and its features.
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
The Snowflake Analytics documentation is excellent.
Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
The technical support for Snowflake Analytics is excellent based on what I have heard from others.
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.1
IBM Netezza struggles with scalability, requiring extra hardware for expansion, prompting users to consider cloud alternatives for growth.
Sentiment score
7.7
Snowflake Analytics offers scalable cloud infrastructure, automatic resource management, and seamless data handling with strong performance for large data volumes.
It is provided as a pre-configured box, and scaling is not an option.
Project Manager at MAF Retail
It supports both horizontal and vertical scaling effectively.
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Storage is unlimited because they use S3 if it is AWS, so storage has no limit.
Senior Software Architect at USEReady
Maintaining security and data governance becomes easier with an entire data lake in place, and the scalability improves performance.
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
IBM Netezza Performance Server is stable, offering high uptime and reliable performance, with occasional issues due to maintenance or compatibility.
Sentiment score
8.4
Snowflake Analytics is highly rated for its stability and reliability, offering minimal issues and excellent cloud support performance.
Snowflake Analytics has been stable and reliable in my experience.
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
The Power BI team raised tickets for both Power BI and Snowflake Analytics, and their responses were very good.
Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Snowflake Analytics is stable, scoring around eight point five to nine out of ten.
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

IBM Netezza struggles with scalability, user interface, query performance, big data support, and high costs, needing better tools and integration.
Snowflake Analytics requires better orchestration, integration, Python support, price transparency, data exports, and enhanced machine learning and performance features.
The cloud version is only available in AWS, and in the Middle East, it is not well-developed in the Azure environment.
Project Manager at MAF Retail
Most companies are using these cloud technologies, so additional features and some transformation capabilities while exporting to different data buckets would be very helpful.
Ai Engineer at eligarf Technologies
I would prefer Snowflake Analytics to improve their support response times, as sometimes the responses we receive are not very prompt and ticket assignments may not be timely.
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
If it offered flexibility similar to Oracle and supported more heterogeneous data sources and database connectivity, it would be even better.
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

IBM Netezza offers high performance and low maintenance but is considered costly, especially for mid-sized organizations, with significant licensing fees.
Snowflake Analytics provides flexible pricing, balancing usability with cost, offering competitive rates and value through its decoupled storage and compute.
Snowflake is better and cheaper than Redshift and other cloud warehousing systems.
Senior Software Architect at USEReady
Snowflake Analytics is quite economical.
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Snowflake charges per query, which amounts to a very minor cost, such as $0.015 per query.
BI Developer at DivVerse LLC
 

Valuable Features

IBM Netezza Performance Server delivers fast analytics, ease of use, robust support, and efficient data warehousing with minimal maintenance.
Snowflake Analytics offers efficient, scalable data management with strong security, cloud flexibility, and advanced features for seamless data integration.
It operates as a high-speed data warehouse, which is essential for handling big data.
Project Manager at MAF Retail
Snowflake Analytics supports data security with a single sign-on feature and complies with framework regulations, which is highly beneficial.
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Running a considerable query on Microsoft SQL Server may take up to thirty minutes or an hour, while Snowflake executes the same query in less than three minutes.
BI Developer at DivVerse LLC
Snowflake Analytics offers multiple new connectors, allowing me to connect it with Kafka, and with Snowpark, I can work with any programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala for data processing and analysis.
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
 

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 (13th), Hadoop (7th)
Snowflake Analytics
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
Web Analytics (2nd), Cloud Data Warehouse (10th)
 

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.
Garima Goel - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro
Have created secure cloud-based data lakes and improved real-time data processing using integrated AI features
There are many capabilities which Snowflake Analytics offers that I find valuable, such as the storage and compute engine that allows working with any cloud system such as AWS or Azure, alongside its efficiencies in storage computation and cost-effectiveness, which saves money compared to on-premise systems. We also have features such as pre-cached results, Time Travel, and fail-safe, which are very useful for restoring data if deleted accidentally, and the streams and data pipes that facilitate real-time ingestion are great features as well. Snowflake Analytics offers multiple new connectors, allowing me to connect it with Kafka, and with Snowpark, I can work with any programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala for data processing and analysis. The data sharing feature offered by Snowflake Analytics is good because it allows sharing specific sets of data to end customers or users from different Snowflake Analytics accounts without exposing the entire dataset for data security reasons. Snowflake Analytics' support for machine learning models and real-time insights has enhanced significantly. Originally, it wasn't strong in AI/ML, but now it has multiple models and forecasting capabilities, providing good competition to tools such as Databricks and Spark. In BI, I have worked majorly with Microsoft Power BI, and the integration with Snowflake Analytics is very easy. The way we integrate Snowflake Analytics with other on-premise systems just requires the warehouse details, username, passwords, and the account name, along with multiple options such as client ID and credentials for logging in and creating a session. The end-to-end encryption provided by Snowflake Analytics is very important because, in my previous firm, working in finance and investment management, data encryption is necessary due to the sensitive nature of customer data and the involvement of people's money. It's crucial to have encryption in transit and at rest, along with data masking features which Snowflake Analytics offers.
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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
23%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
5%
Insurance Company
5%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise33
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise21
 

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 Snowflake Analytics?
Snowflake Analytics is quite economical. It does not appear to incur significant extra expenses beyond the solution's initial cost. However, a complete pricing analysis is still in progress.
What needs improvement with Snowflake Analytics?
In my opinion, Snowflake Analytics can be improved by introducing more features, such as additional integration options. I remember using Snowflake Pro, which allows exporting direct data into the ...
 

Also Known As

Netezza Performance Server, Netezza, Netezza Analytics
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Sample Customers

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