Great for analytics workloads!
May 25, 2022

Great for analytics workloads!

Steven Hibble | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with NitroAccelerator

We use SQL Server for our data warehouse. It's sitting on an Azure VM. Our analysts pull large data sets into SSMS, R, and Tableau all day long. Most of the runtime for these queries is waiting on the network. NitroAccelerator cuts those wait times by 50-90%! This has sped us up dramatically. Waiting for queries was a regular time sink, and now it's something we never have to think about. Most of our analysts don't even know that NitroAccelerator is running in the background.
  • Speed up network-choked queries
  • Massive compression for data transfer
  • I would love to move to serverless DBaaS - Azure SQL Database or AWS RDS for SQL Server. However, the product needs to be installed on the server.
  • Great network compression (50-90%)
  • Transparent and just works: no end-users know this is running
  • Low overhead - the CPU hit for compression is negligible
  • Queries are 50%+ faster than before

Do you think NitroAccelerator delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with NitroAccelerator's feature set?

Yes

Did NitroAccelerator live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of NitroAccelerator go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy NitroAccelerator again?

Yes

If you have an analytics-supporting SQL Server instance on a VM or bare metal, this is for you. Any large queries will get a massive speed-up. If you're using a DBaaS, then you would need to set up a proxy VM to see the benefits. If you have a transactional-only database, you won't likely see any benefits.