Actian Ingres vs Amazon EMR comparison

Actian and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are both solutions in the Cloud Data Warehouse category. Additionally, 100% of Actian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users who would recommend it.

Actian Ingres

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Actian Ingres and Amazon EMR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Actian Ingres

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (27th), Data Warehouse (16th)

Amazon EMR

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Hadoop (3rd), Cloud Data Warehouse (12th)

Featured Reviews

GustavHoltzhausen

Sr Sales Engineer at HCLSoftware

Reliable performance enhances operations with good technical support

We run the entire IRS system, the income system, and the tax system. We also manage the entire Absa banking system in Africa. There's a lot of database applications, similar to those used in banks and the IRS The most valuable features for us are reliability and performance. Our system is used…

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Prashant Singh

Vice President -Product Management at Paytm

Seamless data integration enhances reporting efficiency and an easy setup

Amazon EMR has multiple connectors that can connect to various data sources. The service charges are based on processing only, depending on the resources used, which can help save money. It is easy to integrate with other services for storage, allowing data to be shifted to cheaper storage based on usage.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The deployment of our solution across a number of servers using Ingres .NET has meant that we can protect the database server behind a highly secure firewall and deploy the front end solutions on a normal web server."

"The most valuable features for us are reliability and performance."

"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."

"In Amazon EMR it is easy to rebuild anything, easy to upgrade and has good fault tolerance."

"When we grade big jobs from on-prem to the cloud, we do it in EMR with Spark."

"The security of the managed workflow and the managed services are the best features for us. Since we inherited their security model and it's all managed services, those are the key benefits for our clients."

"Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data."

"One of the valuable features about this solution is that it's managed services, so it's pretty stable, and scalable as much as you wish. It has all the necessary distributions. With some additional work, it's also possible to change to a Spark version with the latest version of EMR. It also has Hudi, so we are leveraging Apache Hudi on EMR for change data capture, so then it comes out-of-the-box in EMR."

"The solution is pretty simple to set up."

"The ability to resize the cluster is what really makes it stand out over other Hadoop and big data solutions."

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Cons

"The ability to reset the log file without stopping the DBMS would be helpful for us."

"The seamless integration is a bit of an issue."

"The problem for us is it starts very slow."

"The solution can become expensive if you are not careful."

"The product must add some of the latest technologies to provide more flexibility to the users."

"We don't have much control. If we have multiple users, if they want to scale up, the cost will go and increase and we don't know how we can restrict that price part."

"Modules and strategies should be better handled and notified early in advance."

"The most complicated thing is configuring to the cluster and ensure it's running correctly."

"There is room for improvement in pricing."

"There is no need to pay extra for third-party software."

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"The price of the solution is expensive."

"The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

"I rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten. It can be expensive since it's a managed service, and if you are not careful, you can run into unexpected charges. You can make a mistake that costs you tens of thousands of dollars. That's happened to us twice, so I'm sensitive to it. We're still trying to work on that. Our smallest client probably spends a hundred thousand dollars yearly on licensing, while our largest is well over a million."

"The cost of Amazon EMR is very high."

"Amazon EMR is not very expensive."

"You don't need to pay for licensing on a yearly or monthly basis, you only pay for what you use, in terms of underlying instances."

"Amazon EMR's price is reasonable."

"There is a small fee for the EMR system, but major cost components are the underlying infrastructure resources which we actually use."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Government

11%

Educational Organization

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Actian Ingres?

The seamless integration is a bit of an issue. I would like to see more direct connectors and stuff like SQLAlchemy. It's there but isn't available as a standard, so it involves going to GitHub to ...

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What is your primary use case for Actian Ingres?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Actian Ingres?

Initially, it's a lot less expensive than competitors. Price performance has always been a priority, ensuring we remain competitive in the market.

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What do you like most about Amazon EMR?

Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EMR?

The cost of Amazon EMR is a little bit expensive, especially considering the support package, which includes a gold package.

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What needs improvement with Amazon EMR?

Spark jobs take longer on Amazon EMR compared to previous experiences. This aspect could be improved to make them more efficient.

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Also Known As

Ingres, Ingres 2006

Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Overview

Actian’s Ingres is a leading, enterprise-grade database management system designed to reduce IT costs and time-to-value, while delivering the strength and features expected from an enterprise-class database. Ingres 10.2 is the latest version of the database, containing enhancements that will make it easier to internationalize customer applications. Along with improved performance and reduced configuration overhead, users can take their first steps into big data analytics with the new Window functions.

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Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) is a web service that makes it easy to quickly and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Amazon EMR simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective for you to distribute and process vast amounts of your data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.

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Groupe Adeo, IsCool Entertainment

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