We performed a comparison between IBM Netezza Performance Server and Oracle Exadata 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."Distribution concurrency control."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution."
"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 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."
"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 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 performance is most important to me, and it helps our ability to make business decisions quickly."
"The data replication is very good."
"On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform."
"We have used this solution for a long period of time so it has become easy for us to query any kind of data from Oracle Exadata which has been valuable."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Exadata is its newer technology that gives better performance. It has more recent hardware and significant changes in the architecture, so it's better than older solutions."
"Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."
"The product is flexible."
"Our main problem with it is concurrency. When there are too many users running Netezza at the same time, this is when we have the most complaints."
"IBM Netezza Performance Server could improve its interface, support for big data, and APA-based connectivity should be available."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata's security features, like TDE encryption, are missing in IBM Netezza Performance Server."
"LIke Teradata, we can’t add a node/SPU to the existing appliance."
"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."
"Concurrency limit needs to be increased somewhat."
"The only issue is that it's not expandable."
"Exadata would be improved with single dashboard visibility."
"It would be good if Exadata made some new features available regarding data retrieval and speed capacity functions."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"There is a feature for security, but it is not included in the first purchase of this solution. That means if you need to increase the security, you need to buy the security feature which doesn't come by default on these solutions."
"Oracle Exadata could improve by having faster data retrieval. We receive data at four or five seconds and want to reduce that number to one second."
"Patching must be simplified."
"The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
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IBM Netezza Performance Server is ranked 10th in Data Warehouse with 33 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews. IBM Netezza Performance Server is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Netezza Performance Server writes "A cost-effective data warehousing tool, but security features like TDE encryption are missing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". IBM Netezza Performance Server is most compared with Oracle Database, Teradata, Snowflake, Altibase and SQL Server, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and IBM Db2 Warehouse. See our IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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