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Actian Ingres vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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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
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (26th), Data Warehouse (16th)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
81
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (2nd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (2nd)
 

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…
reviewer2805510 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Unified log analytics has transformed security monitoring and cuts breach detection to minutes
Splunk Cloud Platform has areas for improvement, including the fact that it is obviously an enterprise tool and can be expensive, which is the biggest complaint I have noted. Costs can rise due to high data ingestion and long retention periods, along with a complex licensing structure that makes pricing difficult to predict as usage grows, especially since more systems send logs. There are also performance concerns at scale where users have reported slower searches and expensive long-term storage needs, particularly in multi-terabyte environments. Additionally, operational complexity exists as enterprises still need to do data onboarding, create dashboards, handle retention policies, access control, and performance tuning. These are the three key areas of improvement I have identified.

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 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."
"Index manager is most valuable because we do not have to bother about internal storage. It is all managed by the Splunk team."
"It's made searching for data easier. Users like it. We're still in the migration process, but overall, it's a lot easier to use."
"The visualization feature in Splunk Cloud Platform is a pretty good feature because I did not need to go to any other vendors, for example, any.run or VirusTotal."
"It has definitely improved our organization by virtue of reducing the amount of overhead we would have had for those environments. Having to implement, maintain, or even update the existing stuff would have been extremely time-consuming. Splunk Cloud handles all of that for us. So it's definitely been helpful from that perspective. It's allowed them to maintain upgrades for far further than they are. Some of the hosts of that environment were still on version 7 so they could get upgraded feature parity."
"In terms of the benefits of the product, I would say it is my go-to tool."
"Splunk Cloud's most valuable features are log aggregations, dashboarding, business management, reporting, and business controls, and it has awesome indexing and the solution is always improving."
"UBA is a great application within Splunk Cloud Platform."
"The ROI with Splunk Cloud Platform is on the higher part, as it has improved the efficiency of our overall organization, increased incident response time to any failure by more than 50 percent, and enhanced the overall visibility of the system, architecture, and infrastructure by consolidating all of our data on one platform."
 

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 ability to reset the log file without stopping the DBMS would be helpful for us."
"Splunk Cloud's SVC licensing model lacks transparency."
"One aspect I dislike about Splunk Cloud Platform is that cost can become high as data ingestion increases."
"Pricing is too high for Splunk Cloud Platform."
"To be honest, I don't think it's beginner-friendly. It takes time and multiple meetings to actually understand how to create different types of alerts or how to search for them."
"Splunk Cloud Platform could improve in how quickly it reacts to users reporting issues."
"The support from the Splunk team is generally good, but sometimes, there's a lack of coordination between our account reps and the hands-on technical people. This misalignment can lead to issues with getting what we need done and what is happening."
"Recently, we got stuck somewhere in an error, but because of the less documentation available in ChatGPT or in any LLM, we had to go through every documentation and then we got the result."
"The current visuals on the dashboard could be more impactful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It was a good model."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's pricing is a little on the higher end."
"There are additional features that you would need to purchase depending on your use case."
"I do not have much idea. We previously used 1 GB at the cost of $600. Both on-prem and cloud licenses have the same price. There is no difference. It did not impact the cost because the costs of the on-prem license and the cloud license are the same. We did not have any issues with that. Overall, its price is reasonable."
"The licensing is based on the amount of data that we send to the cloud on a daily basis."
"It is a touchy subject because we are locked into it. That goes back to the rehydrating data. We cannot have the retention that we want to store for legal and compliance purposes because that is seven years' worth of data for some of the indexes, so we ship them off into S3 buckets and install them there, at which point they are invisible to Splunk, so we have to rehydrate them, but we cannot rehydrate those pockets into Splunk Cloud. We have to rehydrate them into a self-hosted version of Splunk, which can take days to set up and get going. I would not call Splunk's licensing and pricing predatory, but they have made it very difficult to maintain the independence of your own data."
"The cost makes more sense for organizations that have a large amount of data ranges."
"I know that Splunk Cloud Platform is an expensive product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise57
 

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 Splunk Cloud Platform?
Related to the pricing factor, I think it is slightly on the costlier side, but I wouldn't know much because I'm not on the management side. My organization divides developers and management, so we...
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform is almost a nine out of ten, but the main improvement point is the user manual. Recently, we got stuck somewhere in an error, but because of the less documentation available i...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud Platform is used to monitor everything, as we have multiple applications from which we get multiple data and multiple logs. We centralized our logging system, centralized our APIs, and...
 

Also Known As

Ingres, Ingres 2006
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