Actian Ingres vs Oracle Database Appliance comparison

Actian and Oracle are both solutions in the Data Warehouse category. Actian is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.9. Actian holds a 1.1% mindshare in Data Warehouse, compared to Oracle’s 5.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Actian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Actian Ingres

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100% willing to recommend

Oracle Database Appliance

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86% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Actian Ingres and Oracle Database Appliance compete in the database management category. Oracle Database Appliance seems to have the upper hand due to its superior functionality and integrated solutions.

Features: Actian Ingres offers cost-effective high-performance data management, open-source flexibility, and efficient support. Oracle Database Appliance provides integrated hardware and software, automated management, and high availability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Actian Ingres allows a straightforward deployment process with good support, enabling business ease. Oracle Database Appliance involves complex deployment but with strong customer service for troubleshooting.

Pricing and ROI: Actian Ingres has a lower initial setup cost, offering a compelling ROI through value-driven pricing. Oracle Database Appliance entails higher upfront costs but yields substantial ROI due to advanced capabilities and efficiency.

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Categories and Ranking

Actian Ingres

Ranking in Data Warehouse

17th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (26th)

Oracle Database Appliance

Ranking in Data Warehouse

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Actian Ingres is 1.1%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Database Appliance is 5.7%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Rubens Oliveira

Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel

Automated provisioning simplifies deployment and integration

The Oracle Database Appliance is customizable and has excellent features.I don't have any problems with Oracle Database Appliance because this product is very automated, with scheduler and automatic processes throughout. You can make small inferences and changes for creating all the specific modifications. The automated provisioning feature helps speed up the database deployment process because you can use one command or option to resize all the disks or increase memory, depending on the occasion. The Oracle Database Appliance has integration in OCI Cloud. The same services simplify all the manager work regarding backups, configuration, resizing disks, and other services. Deploying the Oracle Database Appliance both on-premises and in the cloud offers the same simplification. You simply input your database name and specify memory quantity, CPU quantity, and database size. The process is identical for both on-premises and cloud deployments. The flexibility of Oracle Database Appliance has helped grow business needs for many customers. Using the Oracle Database Appliance has positively impacted my organization because I can deliver it much more comfortably. Creating a database involves many processes, but with this solution, you just input the name and configure the network and other parameters. It is very similar to RDS in AWS services, where you specify the name, choose the engine, indicate parameter groups, VPC, subnet groups, and proceed. Both Oracle Database Appliance and RDS have greatly simplified the work.

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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 most valuable features for us are reliability and performance."

"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."

"We primarily use it for OLTP, which has improved our costs."

"The Oracle database is able to get the data, process it, and return it to the company's CEO's and CFO's within a single day, and thus they are able to find out yesterday's P and L by today. It has drastically reduced the amount and time of processing from seven days to one day."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of dashboarding and ease of reporting."

"Oracle Database Appliance is a stable solution. We have clients that have been running it for 10 years."

"Oracle has good technical support."

"Oracle offers ETL with PL/SQL as a programming language for SQL programming, which is majorly used in data engineering."

"We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup."

"Oracle is a stable database."

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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."

"If we were able to use Oracle Database to create mobile apps, that would be great. I don't know multiple languages, like Java, etc. I need to learn a separate language, right now in order to do this."

"The product's pricing is too high. We plan to migrate to another database in three to four years."

"There is room for improvement in better integration with third-party tools, such as Power BI or Redshift."

"Technical support is not so great. It could be much better. The maintenance, for an enterprise system, isn't so great. It's also extremely expensive."

"The tool's setup can be easier."

"The product's technical support services need improvement."

"I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions."

"Sometimes, we cannot upgrade or patch it easily. The performance needs to improve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing seven and a half or eight out of ten."

"You must pay for the license."

"The solution may be expensive, but when we consider the problems it solves, the stability it provides, and the fact that we don't have to buy separate parts and assemble them into a system, it becomes more affordable."

"In regards to licensing, it is cheaper to maintain for Oracle applications, and it's an all-in-one solution."

"I don’t know ODA and alternative system prices. But Oracle the database license is quite expensive and a lot of my customers plan to migrate to open source databases like PostgreSQL."

"Get benefit from the capacity-on-demand features. License your cores according to your licenses."

"The price should be lower."

"Oracle Database Application's support and maintenance are included in the contract."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

22%

Insurance Company

University

Government

Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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 Oracle Database Appliance?

Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database Appliance?

While I'm somewhat familiar with standard licensing, pricing isn't really my area of expertise. However, Oracle is on the higher end of the pricing spectrum, along with SAP.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Database Appliance?

For the cloud version, there could be better storage options or more storage for lower prices. However, for on-premises, this is not possible because you have physical disks. In the cloud, more opt...

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Also Known As

Ingres, Ingres 2006

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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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Oracle Database Appliance is the easiest and most affordable way for small or medium-size organizations to run Oracle databases and applications and is an ideal platform for remote and edge computing environments. Customers reduce Oracle Database deployment times and management workloads using a prebuilt integrated system with management automation. As demonstrated in IDC’s business value study (PDF), Oracle Database Appliance lets customers grow revenue and control costs, delivering up to a 498% return on investment (ROI) over five years.

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