Overview
What is IBM® Netezza® Performance Server?
IBM Netezza Performance Server is the advanced cloud-native data warehouse designed for unified, scalable analytics and insights available anywhere. Built with data lake integration, Netezza Performance Server empowers you to run highly complex queries and machine learning to support critical business decisions across your organization. It provides a secure, and scalable source for your analytics that is simple to use and flexible enough to run demanding analytical workloads across fully managed cloud (PDF, 201 KB), hybrid and on-premises (PDF, 41 KB) environments.
IBM Netezza Performance Server is available on IBM Cloud®, AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud Pak® for Data Systems.
IBM is proud to announce the tech preview availability of IBM Netezza Performance Server as a fully managed service on AWS.
Benefits
IBM Netezza Performance Server for your analytics, anywhere
Enjoy cost-predictability in the cloud
Pay only for what you need when you need it with granular elastic scaling and an hourly-credit consumption mode.
Collaborate across secure and governed data
Secure your data while governing access to authorized users of your data in a single place.
Create faster insights for all
Run complex queries in an optimized way for quick execution times, improving time-to-insight and decision speed from days to minutes.
Achieve high availability for your analytics
Ensure reliability of your data with a highly available and fault tolerant Netezza deployment, ensuring your data warehouse can run 24x7x365.
Automate administration in the cloud
Enjoy automated maintenance with Netezza fully managed in the cloud. Stay focused on important tasks, not keeping your data warehouse running.
Get high-performance for your data fabric
Connect with governance, privacy and integration applications such as IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog and IBM DataStage®.
See how Netezza is helping IBM drive a 241% ROI in Forrester’s 2022 Total Economic Impact Report for Data Management.
Netezza updates
The support for IBM PureData System for Analytics appliances is ending in April 2023. Explore your options:
Azure Marketplace announcement
Netezza Performance Server as a Service is now available on Azure Marketplace. Consume your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) credits while controlling your spending with a fully managed pay-as-you-go cloud data warehouse service.
How IBM Netezza Performance Server is used
Easy, high-speed analytics

Easy, high-speed analytics
Bring analytics to your data and enterprise reporting with rich built-in analytics and geospatial capabilities.
- Eliminate the need to deal with the additional overhead associated with data preprocessing and transformations for faster insights.
- Achieve faster insight and faster time to value with superior price-performance with patented massively parallel processing.
Accelerated data science and ML

Accelerated data science and ML
Empower data scientists and analyst teams with the ability to execute custom ML code and build models that operate on data, predict and score directly inside the database. IBM Watson Studio and IBM SPSS® seamlessly integrate with Netezza to provide additional advanced ML capabilities.
- Realize reduced security and compliance risks with one platform for all of your analytics and ML.
- Connect to your ML tool of choice and provide model results for your teams and applications to easily consume and act on ML-driven insights.
Risk management

Risk management
Calculate, analyze and prevent risk to improve future operations and planning across your organization.
- Identify data anomalies and predict risk with a combination of Netezza’s in-memory processing and built-in ML model execution.
- Query both live and historical data to improve precision and accuracy of risk-prevention decisions.
Save up to 47% in ownership costs and accelerate analytics with Netezza Performance Server fully managed in the cloud.
Features
Analytics with speed and simplicity
Granular elastic scaling
Use Netezza’s cloud elastic computing to enable elastic pricing; scale up and down while only paying for what you use.
Highly performant and massively parallel
Achieve faster insight and faster time to value with superior price-performance with patented massively parallel processing.
Trusted analytics
Ensure data visibility, auditability, data masking, access controls, and more in a single platform.
Built for AI
Deploy high speed and scalable machine learning processing for Python and SQL without moving your data.
Data lake integration
Query data from your data lake in minutes with Netezza’s SQL on Parquet capabilities.
Risk-free upgrades
Get single command-line upgrade to the deployment of your choice.
Choose a deployment
Meet your unique business needs
What clients are saying
Findability Sciences
Findability Sciences
“The migration was simple, frictionless, and it took us just 7 weeks to get [our client] up and running, enabling them to accelerate time to insights and decision making.”
— K. Balaji, Executive Vice President and Head Lab Services, Findability Sciences Inc.
iBasis
iBasis
“With Netezza Performance Server, we can monitor call data reports that aggregate an enormous amount of data in order to spot quality issues and margin leak in real time. These reports, which previously took several hours to run, can now be executed in mere seconds.”
— Mano Haran, Senior Director of IT, iBasis
Market research
Market research
“With just one simple command, nz_migrate, we moved our tables, data and stored procedures from our existing Netezza into the new Netezza Performance Server, and we did this all by ourselves.”
— A leading global market research company
Healthcare
Healthcare
“Our longest queries returned in a fraction of their original time, and saw no concurrency drag running hundreds at once.”
— Healthcare client
G2 highest user adoption award
See how IBM achieved the highest user adoption in 2022 for performance servers.
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Netezza is faster and stronger
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