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Amazon Redshift vs Dell PowerStore 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
6.2
Amazon Redshift offers mixed returns; beneficial for high data volumes, but concerns arise over rising costs and limited data effectiveness.
Sentiment score
7.0
Dell PowerStore enhances cost-efficiency and performance by consolidating storage, reducing data center space, and preventing operational outages.
We have reduced infrastructure but the same performance.
With Dell PowerStore, even if the report runs and taxes out the database server heavily, the tool doesn't suffer from a performance hit.
It identified some areas in which we could get some good reductions and could decrease the data center footprint.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Amazon Redshift's support is responsive but costly, with quick responses for routine issues, though advanced support can be inconsistent.
Sentiment score
7.3
Dell PowerStore customer service is praised for responsiveness and expertise but criticized for occasional escalation and time zone issues.
It's costly when you enable support.
If necessary, they will search for a specialist within their Dell network who we can approach with our questions.
I would rate the technical support of Dell PowerStore between nine and ten out of ten.
The solution's technical support is excellent.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Amazon Redshift is generally praised for scalability, though experience varies with larger clusters and specific configurations.
Sentiment score
7.2
Dell PowerStore provides scalable, cost-effective storage with NVMe enhancements, though single drive upgrades can be costly.
The scalability part needs improvement as the sizing requires trial and error.
The customer likely exceeds 20,000 users globally.
While the solution can be vertically scaled without issues, horizontal scaling presents challenges.
The smaller models are not very scalable, while the larger ones offer better scalability.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Amazon Redshift is praised for stability, high availability, and performance, despite occasional challenges with complex queries and environment changes.
Sentiment score
8.0
Dell PowerStore is praised for high reliability and performance, despite occasional stability issues during updates or initial use.
Amazon Redshift is a stable product, and I would rate it nine or ten out of ten for stability.
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
I would rate the stability of Dell PowerStore a ten out of ten.
There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze.
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon Redshift faces challenges in performance, integration, cost, and compatibility, needing improvements in speed, security, and serverless options.
Dell PowerStore needs stability improvements, better integration, enhanced features, and competitive pricing to address user concerns effectively.
They should bring the entire ETL data management process into Amazon Redshift.
If you want to delve into where your I/Os are going, the reporting might need more in-depth information to make informed decisions.
In my organization, we have had to go through two weeks with no replication, which is not very handy for our production environment.
Something needs to be done with the caching to ensure that if some issue occurs, there needs to be an ability to disable caching during maintenance to make it static, safe, and good.
 

Setup Cost

Amazon Redshift offers competitive pricing for large enterprises, but smaller organizations might find it more costly than alternatives.
Dell PowerStore is competitively priced, offering cost-effectiveness and scalability despite high initial costs, with inclusive licensing simplicity.
The cost of technical support is high.
It's a pretty good price and reasonable for the product quality.
The pricing of Amazon Redshift is expensive.
Likely the cost is $400,000 whereas IBM may be $250,000.
We bought a solution that was half the size of the initial solution, and we got a compression ratio of about five to one.
It's an all-inclusive license, so there are no additional charges.
 

Valuable Features

Amazon Redshift provides scalable, efficient data processing with AWS integration, offering robust analytics, security, and user-friendly features.
Dell PowerStore excels in flexibility, performance, and user-friendly features with advanced data management and security, ensuring cost-effectiveness.
Amazon Redshift's performance optimization and scalability are quite helpful, providing functionalities such as scaling up and down.
Scalability is also a strong point; I can scale it however I want without any limitations.
Security configurations are implemented across all processes, such as AWS Config and GuardDuty.
This digital machine can be managed entirely remotely, with an automatic download available from Dell.
The solution's most valuable features are the quick data compression process and ease of scalability for all types of support contracts.
Typically, high-performance and high-availability features, such as application snapshots and remote and local replication, are highly valued.
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Redshift
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (5th)
Dell PowerStore
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (4th), NAS (2nd), Enterprise SAN (1st), All-Flash Storage (1st), NVMe All-Flash Storage Arrays (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

Ved Prakash Yadav - PeerSpot reviewer
Works as a data warehouse system and collects data from different sources
In terms of improvement, I believe Amazon Redshift could work on reducing its costs, as they tend to increase significantly. Additionally, there are occasional issues with nodes going down, which can be problematic. We often encounter issues like someone dropping a column or changing the order of columns, which can cause synchronization problems when pushing data through our pipeline. It's a minor issue, but it can be annoying.
Brian Ricci - PeerSpot reviewer
It's constantly enhanced and has impressive reliability and data compression
The maintenance is a bit expensive. The service and support are there for three years, but after the third year, it is pretty pricey for renewal. I hope Dell addresses that. Everything is pricey these days anyway. It is not like the old days of Compellent. We used to be able to see the metrics for our customers. On Compellent, we could look up that customer and see all the metrics. That is not allowed for us now. We cannot do that anymore. I have to be explicitly allowed by the customer to do that, and some companies' security does not allow that.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
64%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
3%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How does Amazon Redshift compare with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?
Amazon Redshift is very fast, has a very good response time, and is very user-friendly. The initial setup is very straightforward. This solution can merge and integrate well with many different dat...
What do you like most about Amazon Redshift?
The tool's most valuable feature is its parallel processing capability. It can handle massive amounts of data, even when pushing hundreds of terabytes, and its scaling capabilities are good.
What do you think about Dell EMC PowerStore? Is it actually a new product?
PowerStore is flexible, scalable, simple, and performant with market-leading economics for a wide range of legacy and next-gen apps. It is only Flash and can support many workloads from today's app...
How does Dell's EMC PowerStore compare with its EMC Unity XT?
Dell EMC PowerStore is a unified storage platform that has the added benefit of being scalable. The automated management of resources feature provides a more simple administration. I found the flex...
What's the difference between DELL EMC Powerstore and Powermax NVMe?
Dell PowerStore is an all-solid-state midrange storage system. It has many internal elements taken from other Dell offerings and integrated into the PowerStoreOS. The installation and setup have a ...
 

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Sample Customers

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