Firebolt vs. IBM Netezza Performance Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Firebolt
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Firebolt's Cloud Data Warehouse is designed to deliver extreme speed and elasticity at any scale to solve impossible data challenges. The vendor states it combines the best of high performance database architecture with the infinite scale of the data lake, enabling you to perform analytics at jaw-dropping speed across terabyte and petabyte scale. Built on a decoupled storage and compute architecture, Firebolt allows users to scale up or down to support any workload.N/A
IBM Netezza Performance Server
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Netezza Performance Server (NPS) is an add-on data warehouse solution available on Cloud Pak for Data System platform, built over open source and optimized for High Performance Analytics with built-in hardware acceleration. Netezza Performance Server was previously named IBM Performance Server for PostgreSQL (IPS).N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFirebolt introduces a new business model that ensures true alignment of interests with customers. You can now rely on Firebolt to support your ever growing data and compute requirements, enabling you to run more queries faster, without breaking the bank. Firebolt pricing includes a fixed annual cost (described in the tiers below) as well as AWS cloud costs for resources you decide to use (fully transparent AWS compute and storage at the baseline cost. We don't make any profit here).
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User Testimonials
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Netezza Performance Server enhances the data scientist's ability to rapidly design, train, and deploy machine learning models in the database. Netezza Performance Server is essential for implementing cognitive machine learning, providing data scientists with in-database analytics, and enabling them to collaborate on a single platform. Netezza Performance Server supports the use of built-in Spark as well as Python and R for rapid and sophisticated data science and machine learning adoption at scale.
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Pros
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  • The speed of operations is really second to none
  • The data control aspect is really effective and very useful
  • Stability and no latency issues notices during operations
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Cons
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  • The cost is expensive for medium-sized and smaller companies.
  • IBM could bring back the technical account managers.
  • The procurement process is a hassle.
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With a simple user interface and
access to IBM's online instructions, Netezza Performance Server is easy to
operate. It also has built-in contribution facilities, as well as good customer
support, to make the DBA's job easier.
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Return on Investment
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  • It allows us to work together simultaneously in the database to query our custom results.
  • It requires users to know the object name as it does not pop up in their text editor. Thus, users take more time in writing queries.
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