Products
TwinFin, Netezza’s primary product, is designed for rapid analysis of data volumes scaling into petabytes. The company introduced the fourth generation of the TwinFin product in August 2009.[1] Netezza introduced a scaled-down version of this appliance under the Skimmer brand in January 2010.[16]
In February 2010, Netezza announced that it had opened up its systems to support major programming models, including Hadoop, MapReduce, Java, C++, and Python models. Netezza's partners predicted to leverage this analytic application support are TIBCO Spotfire, MicroStrategy, Pursway, DemandTec and QuantiSense.
The company also markets specialized appliances for retail, spatial, complex analytics and regulatory compliance needs. Netezza sells software-based products for migrating from Oracle Exadata and for implementing data virtualization and federation (data abstraction) schemes.
The Netezza appliance was the foundation of IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA).[17]
In 2012, the products were re-branded as IBM PureData for Analytics.[18]
In 2017, IBM released next to Netezza, the Integrated Analytics System [19] using Power-8 processing frame and DB2 as the database engine in an offering called DB2 Warehouse. It featured both row-based and columnar storage, plus high-speed flash drives. The DB2 Warehouse engine runs both in the cloud or on-prem.
In 2019, after acquiring Red Hat, IBM established CloudPak offerings based on OpenShift, and revived Netezza as Netezza Performance Server (NPS) under CloudPak for Data, both of which could run on-prem or in the cloud. The offering is a 64-bit NPS with flash drives and optimized FPGAs. The modernized NPS is 100 percent identical in feature compatibility to Netezza Mako, and moving to this platform required only, either nzmigrate (Netezza migrate) to clone the environment or an nzbackup (Netezza backup)/restore.[20]
In 2020, the first Netezza Performance Server in the cloud was GA (generally available) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This offering uses the actual AMPP (Asymmetric Massively Parallel Processing) Netezza Hardware, not commodity hardware running Netezza software. Migrating to this platform also requires only an nzmigrate or nzbackup/restore through an S3 bucket. It is a direct competitor to Amazon's Red Shift database. It is also available in Azure and IBM Cloud.[20]
