Re: NETEZZA, A Data-warehouse tool

From: Carl Kayser <kayser_c_at_bls.gov>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 09:57:38 -0500
Message-ID: <enb7h3$h8a$1@blsnews.bls.gov>

<pankaj_wolfhunter_at_yahoo.co.in> wrote in message news:1167635712.367112.266750_at_a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> Greetings,
> My management has told me to look into NETEZZA, a
> data-warehouse, tool.
> I dont have any idea abt it.
>
> Can anyone point me to some link or material to start with the topic?
> I am more interested in "how-to-use" part of this tool
>
> I tried on google but couldnt find much help.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Also, I got this statement
>
> "Netezza Corporation produces a data warehouse appliance, Netezza
> Performance Server (NPS). Netezza claims that their product delivers
> 10-100 times the performance at half the cost of traditional data
> warehouse systems. The product competes with products from Oracle
> Corporation, IBM, Teradata and others"
>
> Is it really the case?
>
> TIA
>

(1) A (free) Gartner DW evaluation ("Magic Quadrant" +) of Sybase IQ, Netezza, Oracle, etc:
http://www.sybase.com/content/1043869/GartnerPublishes_DW_MQ-092506.pdf

(2) An article on Netezza at a UK consultant site. There are additional internal article references at the site via its search engine: http://www.it-director.com/technology/data_mgmt/content.php?cid=8822 Received on Mon Jan 01 2007 - 08:57:38 CST