--- 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: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # Actian X Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Actian X but has limited features. Are you part of the Actian X team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! 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. * * * Seller [Actian Corporation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/actian-corporation) Discussions [Actian X Community](https://www.g2.com/products/actian-x/discuss) Languages Supported English Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Snowflake](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Snowflake") Snowflake 4.6/5(764) ](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) [ ![Microsoft SQL Server](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Microsoft SQL Server") Microsoft SQL Server 4.4/5(2,286) ](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) [ ![SAS Viya](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAS Viya") SAS Viya 4.3/5(817) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sas-sas-viya/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/actian-x/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 13 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![HIsham A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "HIsham A.") HA 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. Recommendations to others considering Actian X: check product support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you? its complete development Tools and powerful db Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC 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. Recommendations to others considering Actian X: Use Oracle or SQL Server instead Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Armando E.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Armando E.") AE 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. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Political Organization](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Political Organization") CP 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. Recommendations to others considering Actian X: Not too many recommendations, other than to try the demo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Alternative Dispute Resolution](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Alternative Dispute Resolution") EA 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. What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you? data storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") EI 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. What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you? surveying and review Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC 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. What problems is Actian X solving and how is that benefiting you? database review Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Mike W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mike W.") MW 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. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Christopher S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Christopher S.") CS 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. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Quintessence A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Quintessence A.") QA 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. 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. 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