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# Yellowbrick Reviews
**Vendor:** Yellowbrick Data  
**Category:** [Data Warehouse Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-warehouse)  
**Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 14
## About Yellowbrick
Yellowbrick is a high-performance, cloud-native data platform designed for hybrid multi-cloud and on-premises environments. It supports a wide variety of workloads, including traditional data warehousing, real-time streaming analytics, application analytics, and AI/ML workloads. Yellowbrick&#39;s architecture leverages the power of Kubernetes to deliver scalability, elasticity, and operational simplicity through SQL or a web interface, abstracting any user Kubernetes management. It provides unmatched speed and efficiency in SQL analytics, powered by the Direct Data Accelerator® and supports simultaneous querying and data loading with no impact on performance.




## Yellowbrick Reviews
  ### 1. An outstanding enterprise-class data platform

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2024

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

Yellowbrick is an outstanding high performance data platform that is straightforward to implement and maintain.  It has proven itself to be an enterprise-class analytics platform with rich workload management and security features capable of supporting hundreds of users across data science, business intelligence, data engineering, and AI.

Our implementation of Yellowbrick involved a large scale migration of existing data assets and analytics products - an effort that was well supported through methodology backed by automated tooling.  Interoperability with common data warehouse technologies further allowed us to leverage existing investments in key components such as data acquisition pipelines and end user analytics while upgrading data warehouse capabilities.

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

Support for geospatial data is not yet available in the version implemented, although we look forward to adopting this in the near future as the roadmap is realised.

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Yellowbrick Data Warehouse is a modern, high-performance solution designed for fast and cost-effective query execution on large datasets. It efficiently handles high query concurrency, making it an ideal central data platform for numerous users with diverse workload requirements.

  ### 2. Excelent option to have a DWH engine with low cost and efficency

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Oswaldo V. | Datawarehouse Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2024

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

Yellow Brick Appliance, is a very efficient database that can help companies to store a big amount of that and retrieve in fastest ways. Different use cases can be implemented.

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

In some cases the compatibility with ETL tools are not ready, always you can use YB tools, however is not something easy according the data strategy.

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Offer data to business users in a quick and easy way

  ### 3. VP of Platforms and Tech

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Doug M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2024

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

Ease of use when converting from Netezza and the performance and uptime  of their appliances are incredible

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

Cloud installation is not as straight forward and IP usage is high

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

When Netezza went end of life, we needed a migration path and their appliance made that very easy and cost effective!

  ### 4. Simple, Speed and Powerful processing

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2024

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

The cluster implementation process is simple and quicker, per Postgresql engine, SQL is easy to use while supports much complex queries and quick to integrate with variour client softwares. The speed of processing, export & importing data is phenominal.

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

The product do not support user defined functions.

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data analytics on large data-sets, faster unloads and ETL processings.

  ### 5. Simplicity, Speed and Processing Power

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Victor R. | Customer Support Engineer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

everything is documented, and the way of working is very simple since its base is Postgrestq there is a lot of documentation

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

the updates so frequently, it seems as if they find bugs very soon that arise

**Recommendations to others considering Yellowbrick:**

It is an important evolution of traditional DWH, easy to use and simple to implement

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Speed in processing large data (groupings, sums, etc), Incredibly fast uploads as well as downloads

  ### 6. Modern cloud datawarehouse with exceptional performance and easy to adopt and use.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Rajesh S. | Data Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2021

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

Easy to migrate from other MPP systems and exceptional query peformance with no need of any DBA.
Can migrate from Netezza to Yellowbricks by running as is code with minimal changes.
GUI for monitoring, user access and workload management. 
Minimal to zero DBA activities.

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

Query failures when sufficient resources are not available for use. The system should run them longer instead of failing. There should be an ability for this.
CPU management and processing.
DR process.

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

10-100X faster query performance.
Easy to migrate from other Postgres-based databases.
Meet required refreshes with on-time delivery and increase customer satisfaction. 
Happy general and analytical users.

  ### 7. Outstanding customer service and a strong commitment to project's success

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

The Yellowbrick support team was outstanding in providing support and the solutions my team needed to meet my team's objectives. My team and I had the requirement to load high-volume data into a Yellowbrick database in a performant way, and when it turned out that the initial solution suggested by the Yellowbrick team ran into performance and out-of-memory issues, rather than putting the onus of finding the fix or an alternative approach on my team, the Yellowbrick team "owned" the issue and went so far as to provide fairly complex custom code (and multiple version of it to resolve additional issues that were encountered) to help us achieve what we needed to do. Also, on other unrelated questions and issues my team had, the Yellowbrick team was always very responsive providing prompt feedback, and I never felt that I needed to make an effort to draw out information or responses from them. This shows great commitment to customer service and to making sure that our company's engagement with Yellowbrick is a success. Thanks to all the members of the Yellowbrick support team!

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

I wasn't part of the evaluation that led to my company's purchase of Yellowbrick's product/license. From what I've experienced so far with the Yellowbrick product and their support team for 5 months, I can't think of anything that I have disliked.

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

My team and I had the requirement to load high-volume data into a Yellowbrick database in a performant way.

  ### 8. Netezza to Yellowbrick - Makes your life easier in terms of Performance

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sabareesh K. | Site Reliability Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2021

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

WorkLoad Management - Very Well designed default WLM profiles which is automatically handling most of the Workloads.

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

Backup and Restore Methods need more improvement. Sequence in YB compare to Netezza needs more improvement

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Big Data Processing time got reduced much and High Performance Application UI satisfied the Endusers

**Official Response from Justin Kestelyn:**

> Thanks very much! We'd like to hear more about your backup/restore requirements. Please reach out via support@yellowbrick.com at your convenience.

  ### 9. We are YellowBrick

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alejandra P. | Gerente, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2021

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

What I like the most is that it is a platform that has come to improve our quality of life after several setbacks. We have managed to achieve our goals more easily, simply, and quickly. It is a cutting-edge technology that allows us to enjoy great benefits.

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

Until this moment, there is nothing in particular that I dislike, we are very happy using it.

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It has allowed us to concentrate all the company's data in a single repository despite the fact that the volume is very exponential; currently, there is only one single truth of the data for the entire company.

**Official Response from Teresa Peluso:**

> Hello Alejandra, 
Thank you for letting us know! We appreciate our customers taking the time to share experiences. Please know we value your business and are here to help make you successful.  

Best regards,
Teresa Peluso @yellowbrick data

  ### 10. It's a platform with an awsome performance and easy administration.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2021

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

The performance, the easy administration, It has lower footprint in the site

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

Some problems in the releases have some bugs to fix

**Recommendations to others considering Yellowbrick:**

Yellowbrick is a powerful platform, very fast, easy to use, fast setup to run, very low downtimes for actualization

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Our production timeframe decreased considerably, so with could add more processes, we can add more areas to use the platform

  ### 11. Adopt Cloud based Data Analytics Capabilities with Yellowbricks

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

Flexible deployment option across various cloud services platforms and enriched UI/UX experience

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

Limited integration option on the data security front. Should have more integration options on the roadmap with leading encryption and tokenization solution providers

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Eliminates data silos, allows bringing multiple data sources together, and perform analytics without worrying about how to scale faster

  ### 12. Trustable & Adorable Database !!! Best Platform to cut-over from Netezza

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2021

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

The query performances are much faster & efficient.  The SMC tool functions are beneficial and unique & this will help to have a clear-cut idea of every acceptance of the DB. The Yellowbrick support is qiuck and much appreciated.

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

Database Backup strategies are not as of expectations.

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Yellowbrick is used by our organisation as a new platform to migrate from Netezza. The technical support and  user friendly tools in YB helped us a lot to complete the task succussfully and in much faster than expected.

**Official Response from Justin Kestelyn:**

> Thanks so much for the review! But we're sorry to hear that Yellowbrick's backup/restore functionality doesn't meet your expectations. Please reach out via support@yellowbrick.com so we can advise about best practices and options.

  ### 13. Very fast data warehouse

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

I liked the fact that YB is very quick, be it returning results or exporting data, or creating tables.

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

We are using 15 blade capacity. For creating one of the tables, the query fails with spill space error. The same query runs for a smaller volume of data. If we have a dynamic spill space option, it would prevent such errors.

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are using YellowBrick as data warehouse. It has reduced the run time compared to Netezza.

**Official Response from Justin Kestelyn:**

> We appreciate you taking the time to write this review! Please reach out to us via support@yellowbrick.com so we can investigate and address the spill space issue right away.

  ### 14. Senior Engineer

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2021

**What do you like best about Yellowbrick?**

Very good in terms of performance and fast running queries

**What do you dislike about Yellowbrick?**

N/A. No points to write in dislike section

**What problems is Yellowbrick solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The fast running queries


## Yellowbrick Discussions
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## Yellowbrick Features
**Data Management**
- Data Integration
- Data Compression
- Data Quality
- Built-In Data Analytics
- Data Lake Analytics

**Management **
- Data Schema
- Query Language
- ACID - Complaint
- Data Replication

**Integration**
- AI/ ML Integration
- BI Tool Integration
- Data lake Integration

**Support **
- Text Search
- Data Types
- Languages

**Deployment**
- On-Premise
- Cloud

**Security**
- Database Locking
- Access Control
- Encryption
- Authentication

**Performance **
- Scalability

**Performance **
- Disaster Recovery
- Data Concurrency
- Workload Management
- Advanced Indexing
- Query Optimizer

**Security**
- Data Governance
- Data Security

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization

**Database Features**
- Storage
- Availability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Security
- Data Manipulation
- Query Language

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