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Actian X Reviews & Product Details

Actian X is a combination of transactional and analytic databases and a robust monitoring tool. With industry-leading customer satisfaction ratings, Fortune 100 companies and government agencies turn to Actian X to run their business-critical systems.   The solution provides seamless OLTP that uses the same access methods and queries. The solution optimizes performance for hybrid workloads with both row and columnar data formats. vector processing, multi-parallelism (and more). Actian X is ideal for hybrid use cases, from automated personalized e-commerce offers and real-time quotes for insurance to credit approval and portfolio management, to name just a few. Enterprise monitoring keeps business critical application systems reliable and available with proactive database monitoring and management.

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Actian Corporation

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Actian X Demo - Enterprise OLTP, Operational Analytics, and Monitoring

Actian X adds record-breaking analytics, and monitoring to an already rock-solid OLTP platform.

Actian X offers many valuable features.

Actian X Demo - Delivers Operational Analytics

Actian X creates the perfect platform for adding operational analytics to an existing OLTP system.

Actian X Demo - Keeps Business Critical Systems Healthy

The Enterprise Monitoring Appliance for Actian X uses pre-configured plug-ins to keep track of the health of the database and host system.

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HIsham A.

Senior IT Projects Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/29/2021

"IT projects Manager"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

ABF

DB engine

Response time

query optimization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

discontinuity

support

marking product

road map Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/12/2019

"A dated database technology that has little modern support"

0.5/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

At this point i have no positive component of the review Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

no support expected of a modern database system.

no development environment (such as ssms)

no cloud connectivity for data engineering (Spark library, connectors for Azure/AWS services such as Azure Data Factory) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Armando E.

Senior Architect Data & Analytics

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/6/2017

"Actian Vector review"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

Impressive speed when resolving queries. The performance is astonishing and the ability to set the number of cores assigned to each request is awesome so that you can define the standard number of cores for standard requesst as well as overrride and set a higher number of cores for a complex query. In memory tables is an awesome feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

The stability is not good at all, in my experience we were suffering from instability every day and I had to bounce the database every single day in order to avoid downtime and freezes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Actian X:

It might be interesting how the latest version which supports hadoop file system can do, with an array of boxes and MPP to the maximum level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?

Populating a data lake with real time data integration as well as modeling of analytical models for consumers to feed tableau reports.

We were able to reduce ETL runtimes from 10:1, it opened the door for the new wave of data wharehouse with in-memory tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Political Organization

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/28/2017

"Works well"

4/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

This is a product that works with PostgresSQL and helps with the coding in the tech department. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

It isn't as intuitive as it could be and doesn't have an easy transition period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Alternative Dispute Resolution

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/7/2017

"Great product"

5/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

Easy of use and simple to configure, can be recommended to anyone Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

Newer versions sometimes have capability issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/8/2017

"Review"

4/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

interface is very clean and clear. easy to follow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

too many questions upfront for verification Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/9/2017

"Good Exp"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

Architect for the startup firm Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

Nothing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mike W.

Senior Database Administrator

Food Production

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/23/2015

"Solid Company with a *HUGE* amount of expertise"

4/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

The backwards compatibility for all versions of Ingres. I happen to be fortunate/unfortunate enough to support Ingres versions from 6.4 up to 10. The newer versions certainly have many improvements, but it's nice to know that a lot of the commands that were pounded into my head still work. The stability of the product is also a huge plus! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

There are still locking issues in Ingres. Perhaps it's due to poor front end code design causing the locking. All I know is I perform explicit commits during my daily management of the database. (I understand that's not a bad practice, but implicit commits are nice!) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Actian X:

Work with the support team. They love to help and almost all of them are extremely knowledgable. They will help you as much as they can. That being said, there are not a lot of books on Ingres. You have to scour the web and look for resources to assist you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ingres and OpenRoad (their 4 GL application platform) allowed my company to customize an application for our business model. It would have been much more difficult to replicate this with much larger and more expensive software platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christopher S.

Database Specialist

Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/23/2015

"I worked as an Ingres DBA for 3 years"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

Ingres is a database product that is not feature rich in my opinion, but what it does, it does well. It seems to scale well. The product has good support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

I disliked the table locking mechanisms and the sql interface was not very good. We always needed some downtime to maintain it to the current release. High Availability is not really there with Ingres the way it can be with other Enterprise offerings. Ingres's market share has shrunk the user community from what it once was, so the amount of internet troubleshooting you can do is also not as easy as more widely used databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Actian X:

I think there are many database offerings that may be better for most uses. Ingres is still solid, but does not really shine brightly in any area Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ingres served as the back end for an enterprise telecommunications software and it held up to a pretty intense volume of transactions. I saw it as a very solid database server. I prefer to use open source software and this one is well supported Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quintessence A.

Cloud Engineer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/24/2015

"Ingres DBA 2013/2014"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Actian X?

The product is extremely stable and the few times we did have to reach out to the support team they were courteous and prompt. Wonderful experience overall! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actian X?

The release we were using didn't have the most streamlined security/identity management, so that led to us making some creative arounds. As a current postgreSQL user, I also which that Ingres (postgres' predecessor, technologically speaking) had a schema feature available. Another feature that I really enjoy with postgres is the ability to use procedural languages, e.g. (for postgres) PL/Perl. Even though the latter is still a new feature for me, I've found that scripting this way actually improves performance significantly. A new feature that is being released in postgres made me recall some of the security footwork we had to do when I was using Ingres - especially for our application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.