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Actian Ingres vs OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Actian Ingres
Ranking in Data Warehouse
17th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (29th)
OpenText Analytics Database...
Ranking in Data Warehouse
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Actian Ingres is 2.2%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is 6.5%, up from 6.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica)6.5%
Actian Ingres2.2%
Other91.3%
Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

GH
Sr Sales Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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…
JN
consultant at tcs
Data warehousing has transformed reporting performance and now delivers near real-time insights
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is a very powerful analytic database, but like any platform, there are areas where it can improve to make daily work even smoother. Better cloud-native experience is one area for improvement. OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) was originally designed as an on-premises analytic database and later moved to cloud. Improvement opportunities include more seamless cloud-native features such as auto-scaling, serverless options, and easier cluster management. Competitors such as Snowflake and BigQuery provide more fully managed experiences. Easier UI is another area for improvement. Most administration is currently done by SQL and command line tools. An improvement opportunity would be a more modern web UI for monitoring, workload management, and troubleshooting. Faster ecosystem and community growth is needed. In short, OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) could improve in areas such as cloud-native capability, modern UI for administration, stronger real-time streaming integration, and growing its ecosystem and community. These enhancements would make it easier to manage and adopt compared to newer cloud-first analytic platforms. From a day-to-day operational perspective, there are a few areas where OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) could improve to make our work smoother. Smarter automatic projection management is needed with more intelligence, auto projection creation, automatic optimization, and reduced manual testing with better workload management. Right now, monitoring queries often requires system tables and manual analysis. Troubleshooting slow queries takes time. A modern real-time dashboard showing query bottlenecks and resource users would enable quick detection. The impact could be faster issue resolution and less time spent debugging performance. Storage native interaction with modern data tools is also important. In short, from a day-to-day perspective, improvements in automatic projection optimization, better workload monitoring dashboard, easier schema evolution, and stronger modern tool integration would significantly reduce manual tuning effort and improve developer productivity. While OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is very powerful, these enhancements would make it more efficient for the analytics team.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Ingres is the only database solution that has maintained a level of consistency and integrity about the way users interact with it."
"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 biggest, most valuable feature for us is the clustering aspect with a share-nothing mentality."
"Customer Service: Excellent! Technical Support: Excellent!"
"It is tremendously scalability, with excellent performance."
"Scalability has been amazing; we have seen a lot of improvement and can describe our clusters by petabytes and scale them by the number of users, with one project having 15 to 20 consecutive users dealing with petabytes of storage."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"With Vertica, I am able to make changes using other Vertica features and I do not have to start the project over."
"It provides very fast query performance after good designs of projections."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good."
 

Cons

"The seamless integration is a bit of an issue."
"The ability to reset the log file without stopping the DBMS would be helpful for us."
"The upgrade path and which way we should go, so at the end it created a lot of confusion for us, so I wouldn't upgrade it again lightly."
"While the documentation is very extensive and relatively complete, it’s poorly organized and there are way too few examples."
"More ML, both data prep, models, evaluation and workflow."
"We have found multiple issues with deployment. Deployment was by far the hardest step in the process."
"OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) was originally designed as an on-premises analytic database and later moved to cloud."
"Improve Vertica logging and messages to Vertica startup commands."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"Sometimes users write bad queries that has brought down the cluster."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing could improve, it is a little expensive."
"I think it's starting to get a little expensive. Open source products are starting to get more robust, so I think that's something that they need to start looking at in terms of licensing."
"The price of Vertica is less expensive than some competitors, such as Teradata."
"Vertica is an expensive tool."
"Vertica has a perpetual license, but they are currently trying to convert all those licenses to subscription-based licenses on a yearly basis."
"I am aware that we have licensed it, but I have no knowledge of its cost."
"Start with license per 1TB. Starting from hundreds of TB there is unlimited licensing to be considered. Move historical data to HDFS/S3 which are significantly cheaper or even free."
"It is fast to purchase through the AWS Marketplace."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
16%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise43
 

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 ...
What is your primary use case for Actian Ingres?
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 ...
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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vertica?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is limited because the organization handled the licensing and pricing as well as the cost setup.
What needs improvement with Vertica?
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is already doing great. There could be a community which could have been much more advanced and more people can be engaged so that any kind of questions, queri...
What is your primary use case for Vertica?
The main use case for OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is that we have the Hive and a Hadoop layer for data availability, and Vertica serves as a big data solution. Within a Hive table, OpenTe...
 

Also Known As

Ingres, Ingres 2006
Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
 

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Sample Customers

Groupe Adeo, IsCool Entertainment
Cerner, Game Show Network Game, Guess by Marciano, Supercell, Etsy, Nascar, Empirix, adMarketplace, and Cardlytics.
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