This paper addresses the savings you can expect to accrue when constructing and maintaining a data warehouse with IBM Netezza as compared to Teradata, and shows how these savings significantly impact the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the project. These savings come in many forms, from less time and effort spent on up and running tasks (installation and initial tuning) to less effort required to keep the system performing well over time as applications, users and/or data are added.

As you read this paper, temporarily put aside notions of how a database management system should work, and be open to new ways of thinking. Be prepared to do less, not more, to achieve a better result.