HCL Actian Data Platform vs. MySQL Heatwave

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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If you need a highly performant database, which is much faster than a conventional RDBMS, without worrying about infrastructure scaling, performance tuning, and query optimization, go for MySQL Heatwave. This is the best in the market. It is also very secure and reliable. Regular backups ensure that your data is safe and consistent always.

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• Quick response for queries involving multi-million rows
• Low cost

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• Data mining
• Data analysis
• Parallel computing

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• 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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• Pricing can be a concern if not configured properly
• Not available as a standalone or on premise offering. Only available through OCI
• No Jobs interface like that in Databricks with Spark and Delta Lake

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Oracle>DB2>MS SQL Server>GreenPlum>Vectorwise

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We have not used other platforms. So, after a market survey on price, support and facilities, we have decided to go for MySQL Heatwave platform. Which integrates many technologies and provide best support, service and pricing. Also, it provides access to database. The speed of the execution is very high.

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• We had to move out of VectorWise after using the database for 2 years. Hence no positive impacts.

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• We no longer have to write data pipelines in Spark anymore for executing ML/Analytics Workloads
• Execution time of the analytics platforms has reduced considerably
• Overall time to market has gone down drastically

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