IBM Netezza Performance Server vs VMware Tanzu Data Solutions comparison

IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. VMware Tanzu Data Solutions

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Netezza Performance Server

Ranking in Data Warehouse

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions

Ranking in Data Warehouse

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (7th), Relational Databases Tools (9th), Message Queue (MQ) Software (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of IBM Netezza Performance Server is 4.0%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Tanzu Data Solutions is 5.1%, up from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Warehouse

Featured Reviews

Shemal Gandhi

Lead Oracle DBA | IBM Neteeza Admin | Consultant at Capgemini

A cost-effective data warehousing tool, but security features like TDE encryption are missing

The solution's maintenance is quite easy. One person is enough to maintain the solution. If you are using PostgreSQL as a database solution, then using IBM Netezza Performance Server is the logical choice since it is based on open-source Postgres. However, if you are using Oracle, data conversion can be tricky. So, in that case, you want to go ahead with Exadata. Overall, I rate IBM Netezza Performance Server a seven out of ten.

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Derrick Brockel

Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The product improves site reliability, but it is not stable, and the initial deployment was a little difficult

When we had outages, we had timeouts. Sometimes, the nodes would drop out of a cluster. Therefore, the applications would get timeouts. There is a newer version out that we're planning to upgrade to for some stability. It could also be caused by our design. The product must improve its reliability. It'd be nice if nodes could drop out and notify each other in a timely manner so that the applications wouldn't know if there was a problem.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 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."

"Distribution concurrency control."

"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 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."

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"The product's feature of data transaction works fast."

"The most valuable feature for me is that it is open source. The licensing costs are really low and they are transparent."

"The security is great."

"The solution has really cool features to use. Its management console is excellent. You can utilize plugins to view the performance of the whole service on one network."

"We have been able to set up a messaging system that facilitates data integration between the software modules that we sell."

"The solution improved our site reliability."

"Tanzu Greenplum's most valuable features include the integration of modern data science approaches across an MPP platform."

"Very fast for query processing."

Cons

"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."

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

"The only issue is that it's not expandable."

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

"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."

"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."

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"This solution struggled with multi-regional synchronization."

"The solution needs improvement on performance."

"Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient."

"The fact that a single queue can't be distributed across multiple instances/nodes is a major disadvantage."

"If messages pile up until the space of the memory is full, then basically, the cluster goes down, and someone has to log in through the backend and purge all messages."

"The product has to improve the crisis management, especially in memory issues."

"VMware Tanzu Greenplum needs improvement in the memory area and improved methods for quick access to the disc. So, one of the quick goals of Greenplum must work on enhancing access to the disc by adding hints in the database."

"The initial setup is somewhat complex and the out-of-the-box configuration requires optimization."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The solution's pricing is cost-effective as it does not involve significant expenses. Licensing is required only for the server, while clients do not need any licensing. Therefore, it proves to be a cost-efficient option."

"Tanzu Greenplum's pricing is really competitive and gives excellent value for money."

"It is an open-source product."

"It is the best product with best fit for price/performance customer objectives."

"The price is pretty good."

"We are using the open-source version of this solution."

"The pricing for RabbitMQ is reasonable. It is worth the cost."

"The pricing is okay."

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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

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

73%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Netezza Performance Server?

IBM Netezza Performance Server is a cost-effective solution.

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.

What needs improvement with IBM Netezza Performance Server?

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

How does IBM MQ compare with VMware RabbitMQ?

IBM MQ has a great reputation behind it, and this solution is very robust with great stability. It is easy to use, simple to configure and integrates well with our enterprise ecosystem and protocol...

What do you like most about VMware Tanzu Greenplum?

The loading speed is very good.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Greenplum?

It’s an open-source solution. There are no expenses for using it.

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Also Known As

Netezza Performance Server, Netezza

Greenplum, Pivotal Greenplum, VMware RabbitMQ, VMware Tanzu GemFire, VMware Postgres

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Overview

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.

VMware Tanzu is a robust platform tailored for data warehousing, complex analytics, BI applications, and predictive analytics. It excels in scalability, performance, and parallel processing, enhancing data handling efficiency. Users report significant productivity improvements and streamlined operations, making it ideal for comprehensive data solutions.

Sample Customers

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

General Electric, Conversant, China CITIC Bank, Aridhia, Purdue University

IBM Netezza Performance Server vs. VMware Tanzu Data Solutions