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    IBM Netezza Performance Server

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ANetezza 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

    IBM Informix

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AInformix is an embedded relational database offering from IBM.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Chose IBM Informix
    As a DB Team Leader I have been looking after other platforms (SQLSvr, MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL), supporting application changes, and driving their platforms enhancements through lots of projects over many years. The more I have learnt from other platforms, the more I found …
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    User Ratings
    IBM Netezza Performance ServerIBM Informix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
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    IBM Netezza Performance ServerIBM Informix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    We can query the data source and treat multiple databases
    as one with IBM Netezza Performance Server.



    While delivering fast and reliable analytical performance, the IBM Netezza Performance Server requires minimal configuration and ongoing
    management.



    To drive organizational performance, Netezza Performance
    Server automatically simplifies data and AI to centralize all analytics
    activities on the device, exactly where the data resides.



    For data processing and application dashboards, IBM Netezza
    Performance Server is quite beneficial.





    IBM Netezza Performance Server simplifies event setup
    by notifying you when a hardware component fails, allowing you to quickly
    replace it.
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    IBM Informix creates an effective and secure channel for easy and quick data management and transfer across other major Cloud platforms and other data storage systems. The analytical ability is also the best and most effective visual functionalities and the encryption and the data archiving functionalities are great and easy on reporting.
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    Pros
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    • IBM Netezza Performance Server enables capabilities to integrate with leading ETL solutions.
    • Data can be exported from the IBM Netezza Performance Server to a variety of formats, including Excel.
    • We can prioritize specific users and queries using IBM Netezza Performance Server.
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    • Industry leading OLTP performance.
    • Excellent Data Warehouse performance from the basic engine. Outstanding Data Warehouse performance from the Informix Warehouse Accelerator module.
    • Best embedability among major RDBMS systems.
    • Scalable from the smallest Raspberry PI up to the largest monolithic systems and out to dozens of distributed nodes.
    • Hybrid data capabilities to merge relational data with time seriesv, geospacial data, JSON data and other non-traditional data types with performance comparable or better than systems dedicated to those data types.
    • The latest release, v15.0, removes nearly all internal limits. Informix now supports database sizes up to 0.5 Yottabytes!
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    Cons
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    • More tech support may make it easier as it is only limited to be done via company representatives
    • Overhead cost for replacements and services looks like it is high compared to others
    • Integration with other cloud based application will be great
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    • It is very difficult to find a missing functionality in Informix, technically is great. I will again criticize the business side and how it has been managed over the past, I hope this could be improved with HCL's help. I know they are working hard, but we need to start letting the world know and revert their concept about its existence and that it is one of the best competitors within the data treatment, in the market. We need to start telling the world about success cases and stories showing this and backing up its strong technology.
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    Informix is the best RDBMS on the market. Period.
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    Server management is easy enough to be able to embed the engine in a device and let it run for years without maintenance.
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    The Informix product support team has won awards and is appreciated by the entire Informix user community.
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    Netezza is sufficient against similar products. It comes down to personal preference, I'd love to have the data objects popping up as I type but some people may not like it.
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    IBM Informix creates effective solutions for big data extraction and data transportation functionalities across the entire Cloud services and the Automation ability is the best. The security that IBM Informix provides for all our business data and other project information and contacts is effective and the reports are very clean and easy to understand.
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    Return on Investment
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    • The appliance is all in one so we have all licenses and support contracts under one roof.
    • The cost is expensive so ROI may take time to be realized.
    • If done correctly, then Netezza provides the opportunity for huge ROI.
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    • Although I do not own nor have visibility on my company's figures:
    • Informix generates consistent savings on DBA staffing, no need for many DBAs as other DBMS require.
    • The replication architecture allowed consistent savings in the infrastructure as well as developments and maintenance, the job is already done, no need to develop complex and costly solutions, it's just a matter of configuring it.
    • The advantages of hybrid development (i.e mixing SQL and NoSQL in the same database) is not just a marketing hype: it allowed us to solve with a brilliant solution, in one afternoon of coding, a functional problem we have been having for more than 10 years!
    • The biggest drawback is that IBM pricing may be constraining, it has too important gaps between the mid range and highrange in terms of pricing
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