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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Actian AI Analytics Platform

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Actian AI Analytics Platform (formerly Actian Data Platform) is a software designed to help organizations manage, integrate, and analyze data across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The software offers data integration, data warehousing, and analytics capabilities, enabling users to ingest, process, and visualize structured and unstructured data from multiple sources. Actian AI Analytics Platform facilitates real-time data access and supports advanced analytics, providing tools…N/A

    Kognitio (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AKognitio offered scale-out, in-memory software for big data analytics, aiming to to provide an ultra-fast, high concurrency SQL layer that allows modern data visualization tools to maintain interactive performance, even when the data volume is large and the user count high. Kognitio is obsolete, and no longer available for sale.N/A

    Snowflake

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
    Pricing
    Actian AI Analytics PlatformKognitio (discontinued)Snowflake
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    Pricing Offerings
    Actian AI Analytics PlatformKognitio (discontinued)Snowflake
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Actian AI Analytics PlatformKognitio (discontinued)Snowflake
    Considered Multiple Products
    HCLSoftware
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    Kognitio
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    Snowflake Computing
    Chose Snowflake
    Redshift compute and storage can be scaled up/down together (though they added some features recently, they don't quite add up). I haven't tried Avalanche or Firebolt but would love to in the near future, due to their pedigree or revolutionary billing methods.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Actian AI Analytics PlatformKognitio (discontinued)Snowflake
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Actian AI Analytics Platform and Kognitio (discontinued) and Snowflake
    Feature
    Actian AI Analytics Platform
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Kognitio (discontinued)
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    Snowflake
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    Multi-User Support (named login)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Actian AI Analytics PlatformKognitio (discontinued)Snowflake
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Redis Software
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Exadata
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    Redis Software
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Actian AI Analytics PlatformKognitio (discontinued)Snowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
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    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
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    8.8
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    8.0
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    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
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    Data Sources
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    User Testimonials
    Actian AI Analytics PlatformKognitio (discontinued)Snowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    HCLSoftware
    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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    Kognitio
    What you have are different strategies for data encoding, which makes the process quite flexible, it is perfectly done so that a joint and collaborative work can be carried out, this information analyzed in large quantities, is extremely vital for the company, by giving it the correct and timely reading
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    Snowflake Computing
    Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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    Pros
    HCLSoftware
    • Quick response for queries involving multi-million rows
    • Low cost
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    Kognitio
    • Ultra fast query results.
    • IN Memory Database.
    • Easy integration to reporting services.
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    Snowflake Computing
    • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
    • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
    • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
    • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
    • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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    Cons
    HCLSoftware
    • 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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    Kognitio
    • Problems Could Be Encountered is particularly pronounced in more complex analyses.
    • Categorical variables are often not precise enough
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    Snowflake Computing
    • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
    • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Kognitio
    No answers on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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    Usability
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Kognitio
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    Snowflake Computing
    Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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    Support Rating
    HCLSoftware
    No answers on this topic
    Kognitio
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    Snowflake Computing
    We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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    Alternatives Considered
    HCLSoftware
    Oracle>DB2>MS SQL Server>GreenPlum>Vectorwise
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    Kognitio
    We selected Kognitio because of the legacy systems that are still running. Also, we have legacy systems in place that are fit for Kognitio. End-user has good feedback on our side when we started implementing this solution. Current servers are compatible with Kognitio in place.
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    Snowflake Computing
    I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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    Return on Investment
    HCLSoftware
    • We had to move out of VectorWise after using the database for 2 years. Hence no positive impacts.
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    Kognitio
    • The implementation of the formats to integrate the users we have and the program is also good.
    • I also improve the control of aspects related to the work environment
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    Snowflake Computing
    • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
    • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
    • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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