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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs VMware Tanzu Data Solutions comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Parallel Data War...
Ranking in Data Warehouse
10th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
Ranking in Data Warehouse
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Database Development and Management (7th), Relational Databases Tools (9th), Message Queue (MQ) Software (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is 1.0%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Tanzu Data Solutions is 4.9%, up from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

StevenLai - PeerSpot reviewer
Strong scalable solution with streamlined metadata warehousing
We use it to build our data warehouse and databases, and everything in the back end It helps streamline our metadata warehousing process. As it is our only type of data warehouse and database, it serves as our source, destination, and staging area. This product has many features which are useful…
Derrick Brockel - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution's integration is good."
"The most valuable feature is the business intelligence (BI) part of it."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It performs very well overall."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"It is a very stable database."
"It handles high volumes of data very well."
"The solution improved our site reliability."
"The stability of this solution was very good."
"It's one of the fastest databases in the market. It's easy to use. From a maintenance perspective it's a good product. The segmentation, or architecture of the product is different than other databases such as Oracle. So even in 10 years, the data distribution for such segments will not affect other segments. The query performance of the product, for complex queries, is very good. It has good integration with Hadoop."
"The loading speed is very good."
"It's super easy to deploy and it also supports different languages and analytics."
"Very sophisticated routing control and priority messaging capabilities"
"I like the high throughput of 20K messages/sec, and that it supports multiple protocols."
"The parallel load features mean that Greenplum is capable of high-volume data loading in parallel to all of the cluster segments, which is really valuable."
 

Cons

"This solution would be improved with an option for in-memory data analysis."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"In the future I would love to see a slightly better automation engine, just for the data integration layer, to make it slightly easier for end-users or junior developers to get involved in incremental updating."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"The reporting for certain types of data needs to be improved."
"If the database is large with a lot of columns then it is difficult to clean the data."
"The product must provide more frequent updates."
"SQL installation is pretty tricky. The scalability and customer support also should be improved."
"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."
"Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient."
"The availability could be better."
"VMware RabbitMQ needs to create a new queue system."
"they need to interact more with customers. They need to explain the features, especially when there are new releases of Greenplum. I know just from information I've found that it has other features, it can be used to for analytics, for integration with Big Data, Hadoop. They need to focus on this part with the customer."
"Maintenance is time-consuming."
"The support feature could benefit from some improvement in terms of accessibility and responsiveness."
"The product has to improve the crisis management, especially in memory issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Microsoft has an agreement with the government in our country, so our customers get their licensing costs from the Ministry. Whenever we work with any government, company, or government institute, which is mainly what we are doing, that license comes directly from the Ministry of Technology and Information."
"I think the program is well-priced compared to the other offerings that are out in the market."
"All the features that we use do not require any additional subscription or yearly fees."
"The solution is cost-effective."
"They offer an annual subscription. The pricing depends on the size of the environments."
"Technical support is an additional fee and is expensive."
"The solution's pricing is fairly decent for organizations with huge data sizes."
"The tool could be expensive if we need to manage a lot of data."
"The price is pretty good."
"It is an open-source platform. Although, we have to pay for additional features."
"On a scale of one to five, with five being the most competitive pricing, I would rate this solution as a four."
"The product is available for free use since it is an open-source technology."
"It is an open-source product."
"The pricing for RabbitMQ is reasonable. It is worth the cost."
"We are using the open-source version of this solution."
"Tanzu Greenplum's pricing is really competitive and gives excellent value for money."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
28%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Insurance Company
8%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse?
Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse?
There are many areas for improvement. A major issue is with table statistics. Sometimes the statistics are not refreshed correctly, which causes issues for us. When we update a table, it should tri...
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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Greenplum?
It’s an open-source solution. There are no expenses for using it.
 

Also Known As

Microsoft PDW, SQL Server Data Warehouse, Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, MS Parallel Data Warehouse
Greenplum, Pivotal Greenplum, VMware RabbitMQ, VMware Tanzu GemFire, VMware Postgres
 

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Sample Customers

Auckland Transport, Erste Bank Group, Urban Software Institute, NJVC, Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, Tata Steel Europe
General Electric, Conversant, China CITIC Bank, Aridhia, Purdue University
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