HCL Actian Data Platform vs. Panoply

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HCL Actian Data Platform
Score 8.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
The HCL Actian Data Platform (formerly Actian Avalanche) hybrid cloud data warehouse is a fully managed service that aims to deliver high performance and scale across all dimensions – data volume, concurrent user, and query complexity – at a lower cost than alternative solutions. Avalanche has built-in self-service data integration that can be deployed on-premises as well as on multiple clouds, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, enabling users to migrate or offload applications and data to…N/A
Panoply
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Panoply, from Sqream since the late 2021 acquisition, is an ETL-less, smart end-to-end data management system built for the cloud. Panoply specializes as a unified ELT and Data Warehouse platform with integrated visualization capabilities and storage optimization algorithms.N/A
Pricing
HCL Actian Data PlatformPanoply
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HCL Actian Data PlatformPanoply
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPanoply offers simple, transparent pricing. All plans have a 21-day free trial—no credit card required. You'll get an account executive and data architect to help you get the most out of your smart data warehouse. Pricing starts at $325/month.
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User Ratings
HCL Actian Data PlatformPanoply
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
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(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
HCL Actian Data PlatformPanoply
Likelihood to Recommend
HCL Technologies
This is a tool geared for smaller to mid-sized business that has disparate sources of data from different platforms in varying incarnations. It’s a great ETL tool to solve the problems a scenario like that causes, but you can also achieve that with good BI Tools like Qlik Sense. So be careful that you really need an ETL tool, as opposed to an end-use tool with a built-in ETL component. If you are going ELT and have a lot of data an not a lot of corporate resources, this is a better option than Microsoft or Informatica
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Sqream Technologies
Panoply is well suited for companies with large amounts of data that do not want all users of the company to see or view. It is appropriate for companies that have to store data for several years in case clients need the data. It is not made to constantly be downloading or looking at the documents.
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Pros
HCL Technologies
  • Quick response for queries involving multi-million rows
  • Low cost
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Sqream Technologies
  • Ease of data integrations. Importing data into the data warehouse is a point-and-click effort.
  • Automated data modeling. The data is modeled in a way that facilitates analysis without having to look into it myself.
  • Query speed. Automated query optimization has really sped up our dashboards.
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Cons
HCL Technologies
  • As I said before, more training or greater visibility to training tools/options would be a plus. It’s easy to publish YouTube videos these days, I think they should make more of them.
  • Differentiation would help, there’s not a lot out there to drive you to buy the product if you are well informed in the market. If you know the market, you steer towards the large or trendy products. It’s a good product, but lost in the noise of the field I think.
  • Hitching the wagon to a major software brand (like Mule did to Salesforce) would help grow the user base, and thus increase the activity in the support community. More users also translates into product champions.
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Sqream Technologies
  • The user interface could use some improvement for analytical tools. Apart from that, it’s great.
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Usability
HCL Technologies
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Sqream Technologies
It’s a good choice for building a quick, multipurpose data stack for a variety of businesses needs.
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Alternatives Considered
HCL Technologies
Oracle>DB2>MS SQL Server>GreenPlum>Vectorwise
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Sqream Technologies
Panoply has much more storage and better organization tools for searching. There are better folders and tools for keeping documents secure and stored for a long period of time. It is better to offload data in mass than singular or Zip drive documents like you would do in Google Drive.
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Return on Investment
HCL Technologies
  • We had to move out of VectorWise after using the database for 2 years. Hence no positive impacts.
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Sqream Technologies
  • Saved time on Redshift setup
  • Saved support costs (monetary and temporal) by not having to set up on-premise
  • Widens the BI tool use in organization; lowers the barrier to entry and makes organization more productive in analytical terms
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