IBM Db2 Database vs IBM Netezza Performance Server comparison

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

"The most valuable feature of the IBM Db2 Database is the ease of use, and the ability to do query writing of any SQL statement and have an output."

"IBM Db2 Database has good performance."

"The most valuable features are the simplicity of the database and the access to Db2 and Db2 information."

"I like that its true active-active. For example, if there are two instances within a cluster, we can take one of them down and there's no failover or switch over. There's no primary and secondary, it's true active-active. We can take one side down and we can upgrade that with new maintenance or a new version, obviously testing coexistence beforehand, without impacting the business."

"IBM DB2 pureScale Feature is valuable."

"The solution has many beneficial features, such as security, support, and stability."

"It's easy to search and extract data from the warehouse using queries."

"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 performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."

"Distribution concurrency control."

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

"The data governance prospect... from what I've seen, that is a really powerful tool as well, to help with data lineage and keeping track of that."

"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."

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

"The command line part of this solution could be much better."

"I would like to see some artificial intelligence brought into the solution."

"The management of Db2 should be simplified because there are not too many specialists in this area, and the learning curve of Db2 specialists is very long. After the courses, probably it takes one and a half or two years to get to the point when you are using the product properly in the production systems. So, the complexity is very high, and the most important thing is to simplify the management of the product, including self-maintenance. They should simplify the installation, management, and monitoring to simplify the product. It takes too long for a person to be a specialist in this product."

"They should simplify the management of Db2 as a relational database system. There should be the simplification of management. This is probably one of the most important asks for being successful in the future."

"Microsoft SQL Server is comparatively very simple to use. I wish IBM would move towards making Db2 easy to use for both basic and advanced users. This is where I see room for advancement. Db2 is also more expensive than Microsoft SQL Server, and its price can be reduced. The replication feature needs to be there in Db2. Microsoft provides similar functionality in SQL Server. IBM also has similar functionality, but it exists in a different product. So, to have the replication ability, you have to buy a different product. It makes sense to have this functionality within Db2 instead of a different product. It will also be helpful in terms of competition. In Africa, the problem for Db2 is competition. Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server have been in this market for a very long time. These companies have built the ecosystem and the brand within this market for a very long time. So, they are very popular with users. Db2 or IBM came a little later in the game, and that's where the problem lies. They also don't do a lot of marketing for it, which is also a problem."

"The technical support can be faster."

"The pricing could be improved, it's expensive."

"We need some time to improve the performance. We have to perform a weekly REORG, or else RUNSTATS for the databases."

"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."

"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The solution costs less than other products."

"I rate the price of the IBM Db2 Database an eight out of ten."

"It is expensive. The price depends on the size of the machine on which you are installing the Db2 and the features you are using. It also depends on the country. IBM has different policies and different options for payment for this product."

"It is expensive."

"It is expensive when compared to other products."

"Clients are required to purchase a license."

"The solution's hardware and subscription model for support are very expensive."

"I rate the product pricing a nine out of ten."

"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 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."

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