--- title: Actian X Reviews meta_title: 'Actian X Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Actian X works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.5 review_count: 13 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-05' parent_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # Actian X Reviews **Vendor:** Actian Corporation **Category:** [Database Management Systems (DBMS)](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-management-systems-dbms) **Average Rating:** 3.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About Actian X 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. ## Actian X Reviews ### 1. IT projects Manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** HIsham A. | Senior IT Projects Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Actian X?** ABF DB engine Response time query optimization **What do you dislike about Actian X?** discontinuity support marking product road map **Recommendations to others considering Actian X:** check product support **What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?** its complete development Tools and powerful db ### 2. A dated database technology that has little modern support **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Actian X?** At this point i have no positive component of the review **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) **Recommendations to others considering Actian X:** Use Oracle or SQL Server instead **What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are extracting data from an Ingres source into a cloud SQL DB using spark (spark used as no connector available for Azure Data Factory) ### 3. Actian Vector review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Armando E. | Senior Architect Data & Analytics, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2017 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 4. Works well **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Political Organization | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2017 **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. **What do you dislike about Actian X?** It isn't as intuitive as it could be and doesn't have an easy transition period. **Recommendations to others considering Actian X:** Not too many recommendations, other than to try the demo. **What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are tracking coding changes and working to improve our bug tracking and software development. ### 5. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Dispute Resolution | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2017 **What do you like best about Actian X?** Easy of use and simple to configure, can be recommended to anyone **What do you dislike about Actian X?** Newer versions sometimes have capability issues **What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?** data storage ### 6. Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Actian X?** interface is very clean and clear. easy to follow **What do you dislike about Actian X?** too many questions upfront for verification **What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?** surveying and review ### 7. Good Exp **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2017 **What do you like best about Actian X?** Architect for the startup firm **What do you dislike about Actian X?** Nothing **What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?** database review ### 8. Solid Company with a *HUGE* amount of expertise **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike W. | Senior Database Administrator, Food Production, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2015 **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! **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!) **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. **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. ### 9. I worked as an Ingres DBA for 3 years **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher S. | Database Specialist, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2015 **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. **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. **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 **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 ### 10. Ingres DBA 2013/2014 **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Quintessence A. | Cloud Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2015 **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! **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. **What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?** The company I was working for when I used Ingres was storing data for clinical data trials - so the data was highly sensitive and we had very strict security. ### 11. Great DBMS with very little requirment for maintenance - Life expectancy is however limited **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marc C. | SAP / Business Technology Director Americas, Glass, Ceramics & Concrete, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2015 **What do you like best about Actian X?** Easy to understand and use tools (db management, 4GL, ABF...) Works well with text terminal environment Very stable on HPUX Great community Embedded C available out of the box Lack of long term plans (change of owner a couple of years ago) SQL not as powerfull as other DBMS (ORacle, MS SQL...) Not supported by major ERP **What do you dislike about Actian X?** Lack of long term plans (change of owner a couple of years ago) SQL not as powerfull as other DBMS (ORacle, MS SQL...) Not supported by major ERP **Recommendations to others considering Actian X:** Use the Open Source version and support Not recommended to build business critical applications **What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stable DBMS and framework (client/server) supporting manufacturing processes Connection with SAP Business Object Live connection with SAP ECC 6 ### 12. Ingres retro review from the 90's **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike H. | IMS Senior Database Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2015 **What do you like best about Actian X?** When I used it, Ingres was ahead of it's time for relational databases on a UNIX platform. Oracle was delivering vaporware, and Ingres delivered the goods with a tecnically superior product. It had a nice transaction manager and a gateway to the mainframe that no other products were offering. Their 4GL was an awesome development tool as well. **What do you dislike about Actian X?** The release I was using at the time had poor performance when timestamps were used in indexes. It also had sever lock escalation when doing mass deletes, however I think the SQL that was used was not very good either, trying to do mass deletes with a WHERE clause on several rows instead of using a cursor. **Recommendations to others considering Actian X:** Not having used it recently, I would only ensure that the future support and enhancements align with your business needs. **What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problems were small - we were just moving an outdated mainframe system to UNIX. The subsequent systems that went in fulfilled the new business needs at a lower cost ### 13. Lightweight and gets the job done **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David P. | Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Actian X?** Ingres is a very simple and easy to use database. It's lightweight and in turn performs well enough to support high volumes of data. **What do you dislike about Actian X?** I'd like the ability for it to save more queries, and have more tools (comparing to MSSQLServer which has many). **What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you?** Functions were easy to set up in Ingres, and help with the every day sql query. ## Actian X Discussions - [What is Actian X used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-actian-x-used-for) - [View Actian X pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/actian-x/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-29+13%3A58%3A22+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b0a245fb-a804-4dd4-8ec9-1117aff99faf&secure%5Btoken%5D=1f212bfa6e98d4e33bad5d7b26e82d969a855c84b4071d85006978829e314945&format=llm_user) ## Actian X Features **Management** - Data dictionary - Data Replication - Query Language - Data Modeling - Performance Analysis **Maintenance** - Data Migration - Backup and Recovery - Multi-User Environment **Security** - Data Encryption - User Access Control ## Top Actian X Alternatives - [Snowflake](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (707 reviews) - [Microsoft SQL Server](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (2,127 reviews) - [Databricks](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,284 reviews)