Amazon Redshift vs IBM Netezza Performance Server comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are both solutions in the Data Warehouse category. Additionally, 86% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Amazon Redshift

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon Redshift and IBM Netezza Performance Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Redshift

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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IBM Netezza Performance Server

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Data Warehouse (11th)

Featured Reviews

Ved Prakash Yadav

Senior Data Platform Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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

Pros

"I am satisfied with the performance of the product."

"In terms of valuable features, I like the columnar storage that Redshift provides. The storage is one of the key features that we're looking for. Also, the data updates and the latency between the data-refreshes."

"Setup is easy. It's a fast solution with machine learning features, good integration, and a good API."

"The solution's speed, stability, and user concurrency have been very good."

"Though Amazon Redshift is good, it depends on what kind of business you're trying to do, what type of analytics you need, and how much data you have."

"I find the most valuable features to be the MPP style of processing, which mostly all of the data warehouses provide. The ability to integrate all other AWS services, such as NSS and S3, with little effort is very helpful. The service is well maintained, there are update patches frequently."

"It allows for the storage of huge amounts of data."

"It's scalable because it's on the cloud."

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

"Distribution concurrency control."

"The benefit is really because of the additional speed that we have and, truth be told, the more updated ETL processes and the revamped scheduler in general."

"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."

"IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution."

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

"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."

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

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Cons

"The only minor issue I faced was that it took a bit longer than expected to change the cluster to have more space or storage."

"Redshift's GUI could be more user-friendly. It's easier to perform queries and all that stuff in Azure Synapse Analytics."

"In the next release, a pivot function would be a big help. It could save a lot of time creating a query or process to handle operations."

"What would make Amazon Redshift better is improvising on the pricing structure. For example, Acronis provides backups in cybersecurity, yet the pricing is a bit lesser than Amazon Redshift."

"In the solution, user-based access is quite hard. In general, certain permissions are difficult to manage."

"AWS Snowflake has a very good feature for cloning databases. It makes it easy to clone a data warehouse, which is useful. I would like to see this feature in Redshift."

"They should provide a better way to work with interim data in a structured way than to store it in parquet files locally."

"Amazon Redshift could improve the user interface support."

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

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

"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."

"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."

"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."

"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."

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

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is comparable to Snowflake."

"Amazon Redshift is an expensive solution. Larger organizations can afford this solution, but smaller businesses would struggle to afford it."

"This solution implements the pay-as-you-use model, so no license. Pricing could be cheaper."

"The price of the solution is reasonable. According to the RA3 cluster particularly, it provides 128 GB of storage with only four nodes. If you can manage your computations processes with the help of materialized views and proper queries. I think the IP clusters are very useful and overall fair for the price."

"It's around $200 US dollars. There are some data transfer costs but it's minimal, around $20."

"For Amazon Redshift, we pay around INR 60,000 annually. The cost factor also depends on the number of existing customers."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing a seven."

"It's pay per use. You can have multiple models."

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"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."

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

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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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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

65%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

76%

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Computer Software Company

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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...

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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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Redshift?

I have no idea about pricing.

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What do you like most about IBM Netezza Performance Server?

IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution.

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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.

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What needs improvement with IBM Netezza Performance Server?

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Comparisons

Teradata vs Amazon Redshift

Compared 16% of the time

Snowflake vs Amazon Redshift

Compared 11% of the time

Oracle Exadata vs Amazon Redshift

Compared 11% of the time

AWS Lake Formation vs Amazon Redshift

Compared 10% of the time

SAP Business Warehouse vs Amazon Redshift

Compared 2% of the time

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Teradata vs IBM Netezza Performance Server

Compared 18% of the time

Oracle Exadata vs IBM Netezza Performance Server

Compared 17% of the time

Oracle Database vs IBM Netezza Performance Server

Compared 11% of the time

Snowflake vs IBM Netezza Performance Server

Compared 10% of the time

IBM Db2 Database vs IBM Netezza Performance Server

Compared 6% of the time

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Overview

What is Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift is a fully administered, petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse service. Users are able to begin with a minimal amount of gigabytes of data and can easily scale up to a petabyte or more as needed. This will enable them to utilize their own data to develop new intuitions on how to improve business processes and client relations.

Initially, users start to develop a data warehouse by initiating what is called an Amazon Redshift cluster or a set of nodes. Once the cluster has been provisioned, users can seamlessly upload data sets, and then begin to perform data analysis queries. Amazon Redshift delivers super-fast query performance, regardless of size, utilizing the exact SQL-based tools and BI applications that most users are already working with today.

The Amazon Redshift service performs all of the work of setting up, operating, and scaling a data warehouse. These tasks include provisioning capacity, monitoring and backing up the cluster, and applying patches and upgrades to the Amazon Redshift engine.

Amazon Redshift Functionalities

Amazon Redshift has many valuable key functionalities. Some of its most useful functionalities include:

Cluster administration: The Amazon Redshift cluster is a group of nodes that contains a leader node and one (or more) compute node(s). The compute nodes needed are dependent on the data size, amount of queries needed, and the query execution functionality desired.
Cluster snapshots: Snapshots are backups of a cluster from an exact point in time. Amazon Redshift offers two types of snapshots: manual and automated. Amazon will store these snapshots internally in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) utilizing an SSL connection. Whenever a Snapshot restore is needed, Amazon Redshift will create a new cluster and will import data from the snapshot as directed.
Cluster access: Amazon Redshift provides several intuitive features to help define connectivity rules, encrypt data and connections, and control the overall access of your cluster.
IAM credentials and AWS accounts: The Amazon Redshift cluster is only accessible by the AWS account that created the cluster. This automatically secures the cluster and keeps it safe. Inside the AWS account, users access the AWS Identity and IAM protocol to create additional user accounts and manage permissions, granting specified users the desired access needed to control cluster performance.
Encryption: Users have the option to choose to encrypt the clusters for additional added security once the cluster is provisioned. When encryption is enabled, Amazon Redshift will store all the data in user-created tables in a secure encrypted format. To manage Amazon Redshift encryption keys, users will access AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

Reviews from Real Users

“Redshift's versioning and data security are the two most critical features. When migrating into the cloud, it's vital to secure the data. The encryption and security are there.” - Kundan A., Senior Consultant at Dynamic Elements AS

“With the cloud version whenever you want to deploy, you can scale up, and down, and it has a data warehousing capability. Redshift has many features. They have enriched and elaborate documentation that is helpful.”- Aishwarya K., Solution Architect at Capgemini

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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.

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Sample Customers

Liberty Mutual Insurance, 4Cite Marketing, BrandVerity, DNA Plc, Sirocco Systems, Gainsight, Blue 449

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

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