title: how does netezza work? how does it compare to Hadoop?
body: <p>Want to understand whether <code>Netezza</code> or <code>Hadoop</code> is the right choice for the below purposes:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Pull feed files from several online sources of considerable size at times more than a GB.</p></li>
  <li><p>Clean, filter, transform and compute further information from the feeds.</p></li>
  <li><p>Generate metrics on different dimensions akin to how data warehouse cubes do it, and</p></li>
  <li><p>Aid webapps to access the final data/metrics faster using SQL or any other standard mechanisms.</p></li>
  </ul>