We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Teradata IntelliFlex 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."They are very reliable and cost-effective."
"Its scalability and ease of use are valuable. It is fairly simple for a tool that's that powerful. If you have a background in Microsoft SQL Server, it is a very easy-to-transition path."
"The solution operates like a typical SQL Server environment so there is no alienation in terms of technical knowledge."
"Fills the gap between big data and classic data warehouses."
"The useability, the user interface, is very user-friendly."
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"I like its performance. It is well-structured and offers a lot of practical options. Because of the visual design of the product, it is very easy to find icons and other visual elements. It took me more than two weeks to understand how it works. I had an intensive training session to understand it, which was enough. It was not hard to understand how it works."
"We use Azure Synapse Analytics in many different areas and industries, so I like that you can administrate and create pipelines for difference sources of data and later integrate and deploy it to other internal areas, such as separate dashboards for financials, and so on."
"The product's scalability is great. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution's banking model, called FSLDM (Financial Services Logical Data Model), is sophisticated and good."
"It is very stable. It's 100% uptime. Speed and resilience are one of the greatest features of this product. In almost twenty years we've never had downtime, except for outages for patches and upgrades. We've never had a system failure in twenty years."
"IntelliFlex is easy to scale - one of its best features is that you can upscale it to the size you want."
"Intelliflex is very scalable. In fact, scalability has improved 100 times by Intelliflex, in my personal opinion."
"It's a complicated product."
"Indicating what areas need improvement in this solution is a difficult question because the organizations that I am working for are really new in this area. However, an even better more simple interface, or perhaps an extension of a connector app store solution, would be helpful."
"There is a limit on the number of concurrent queries to around 125 for Azure Synapse."
"The platform is not flexible, and the graphical user interface needs to be improved because the interface makes it hard for the end user to use it."
"If I'm looking for something good in the cloud, I would want it to have better standard connectors."
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics can improve by adding more flexibility to the reports. Having more visible structures based on the area, region and country would be beneficial."
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve the section in the solution where you can implement the Python Spark pipelines, it's not the same as in Databricks which would be better."
"Right now, we are really struggling with the performance. it's not as good as we had hoped."
"The initial setup is complex because there are a lot of factors that come into play, including the amount of software and applications that require access."
"They should add more connectors to different platforms."
"The only issue our company has with Teradata IntelliFlex is that it is not cost-effective because of the way the product has been designed."
"The solution’s pricing, scalability, and technical support response time could be improved."
"The reporting side wasn't very good in the past, but with the latest versions, it's getting better. Still, the friendliness of the PDC reporting and functionality needs to be improved."
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 86 reviews while Teradata IntelliFlex is ranked 11th in Data Warehouse with 5 reviews. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8, while Teradata IntelliFlex is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata IntelliFlex writes "A tool that provides high performance and speed to its users, along with an exceptional scalability option". Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Teradata, whereas Teradata IntelliFlex is most compared with Teradata and Oracle Exadata. See our Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Teradata IntelliFlex report.
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