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Apache Spark vs Netezza Analytics comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Apache Spark
Ranking in Hadoop
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Compute Service (4th), Java Frameworks (2nd)
Netezza Analytics
Ranking in Hadoop
10th
Average Rating
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Hadoop category, the mindshare of Apache Spark is 17.5%, down from 21.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Netezza Analytics is 1.4%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Ilya Afanasyev - PeerSpot reviewer
Reliable, able to expand, and handle large amounts of data well
We use batch processing. It works well with our formats and file versions. There's a lot of functionality. In our pipeline each hour, we make a copy of data from MongoDB, of the changes from MongoDB to some specific file. Each time pipeline copied all of the data, it would do it each time without changes to all of the tables. Tables have a lot of data, and in the last MongoDB version, there is a possibility to read only changed data. This reduced the cost and configuration of the cluster, and we saved about $150,000. The solution is scalable. It's a stable product.
Shiv Subramaniam Koduvayur - PeerSpot reviewer
A robust solution with good support, but a better GUI for database management is needed
The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this solution is that a lot of evaluation should be done before starting. Also, we needed to put a lot of effort into understanding the different functions that the product offers. This allows you to best leverage the capability of the product. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product's deployment phase is easy."
"Apache Spark provides a very high-quality implementation of distributed data processing."
"It provides a scalable machine learning library."
"The solution has been very stable."
"Apache Spark can do large volume interactive data analysis."
"This solution provides a clear and convenient syntax for our analytical tasks."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its speed and efficiency. It's much faster than other tools and excels in parallel data processing. Unlike tools like Python or JavaScript, which may struggle with parallel processing, it allows us to handle large volumes of data with more power easily."
"It's easy to prepare parallelism in Spark, run the solution with specific parameters, and get good performance."
"It is a back end for our SSIS, MicroStrategy,, Tableau. All of these are connecting to get the data. To do so we are also using our analytics which is built on the data."
"The performance of the solution is its most valuable feature. The solution is easy to administer as well. It's very user-friendly. On the technical side, the architecture is simple to understand and you don't need too many administrators to handle the solution."
"The need for administration involvement is quite limited on the solution."
"Data compression. It was relatively impressive. I think at some point we were getting 4:1 compression if not more."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"For me, as an end-user, everything that I do on the solution is simple, clear, and understandable."
"Speed contributes to large capacity."
 

Cons

"The management tools could use improvement. Some of the debugging tools need some work as well. They need to be more descriptive."
"More ML based algorithms should be added to it, to make it algorithmic-rich for developers."
"There were some problems related to the product's compatibility with a few Python libraries."
"Stability in terms of API (things were difficult, when transitioning from RDD to DataFrames, then to DataSet)."
"One limitation is that not all machine learning libraries and models support it."
"When using Spark, users may need to write their own parallelization logic, which requires additional effort and expertise."
"The migration of data between different versions could be improved."
"Apache Spark lacks geospatial data."
"I'm not sure of IBM's roadmap currently, as the solution is coming up on its end of life."
"In-DB processing with SAS Analytics, since this is supposed to be an analytics server so the expectation is there."
"The solution could implement more reporting tools and networking utilities."
"Administration of this product is too tough. It's very complex because of the tools which it's missing."
"The Analytics feature should be simplified."
"Disaster recovery support. Because it was an appliance, and if you wanted to support disaster recovery, you needed to buy two."
"The hardware has a risk of failure. They need to improve this."
"This product is being discontinued from IBM, and I would like to have some kind of upgrade available."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"On the cloud model can be expensive as it requires substantial resources for implementation, covering on-premises hardware, memory, and licensing."
"Apache Spark is an open-source solution, and there is no cost involved in deploying the solution on-premises."
"We are using the free version of the solution."
"The product is expensive, considering the setup."
"It is quite expensive. In fact, it accounts for almost 50% of the cost of our entire project."
"Spark is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."
"Apache Spark is an expensive solution."
"It is an open-source solution, it is free of charge."
"For me, mainly, it reduces my costs. It's not only the appliance cost. There are also support costs and a maintenance costs. It does reduce the costs very drastically."
"The annual licensing fees are twenty-two percent of the product cost."
"Expensive to maintain compared to other solutions."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
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