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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 Demo - Actian X Features
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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Actian X Reviews (13)

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Actian X Reviews (13)

3.5
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Users consistently praise the product for its ease of use and stability, making it a reliable choice for managing databases. Many appreciate its lightweight design, which supports high data volumes effectively. However, some users note that newer versions may have capability issues, impacting overall performance.
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HIsham A.
HA
Senior IT Projects Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"IT projects Manager"
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
CC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A dated database technology that has little modern support"
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.
AE
Senior Architect Data & Analytics
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Actian Vector review"
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.

Verified User in Political Organization
CP
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Works well"
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
EA
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great product"
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
EI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Review"
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
AC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good Exp"
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.
MW
Senior Database Administrator
Food Production
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Solid Company with a *HUGE* amount of expertise"
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.

Christopher S.
CS
Database Specialist
Higher Education
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"I worked as an Ingres DBA for 3 years"
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.

Quintessence A.
QA
Cloud Engineer
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Ingres DBA 2013/2014"
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.

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