Actian announced that its
Avalanche hybrid
cloud data warehouse out-performed, on speed and price-performance, four other
leading cloud services, including Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse,
and Google BigQuery, in a newly released GigaOm benchmark report. The
comprehensive GigaOm Analytic Field Test was derived from the industry standard
TPC-H Decision Support Benchmark.
Now more than ever,
businesses need modern, scalable architectures and high levels of performance
and reliability to provide timely, analytical insights. Hybrid cloud data
warehouses, like the Avalanche data warehouse service, provide the elastic
scalability organizations need, and at a lower price point, to help meet the
demands of running a business and rapid decision making.
The report, High
Performance Cloud Data Warehouse Vendor Evaluation, shows that Actian's
Avalanche solution proved to be the industry leader on price and performance
against competitors, beating four other vendors in 20 of the 22 queries that
comprise the test:
- Performance: Avalanche
query response times in the 30TB test were overall 8.5 times faster than
Snowflake, approximately 1.3 those of Redshift, 1.5 times those of
Synapse, and 7.9 times faster than those of BigQuery in tests of five
concurrent users.
- Price: The
Avalanche service ran the five concurrent user queries roughly 6.4 times
more cost effectively than Snowflake, as measured in total cost to
complete the benchmark workloads. The Avalanche service further
proved 1.4 times better than Redshift, 1.3 times better than Synapse, and
12.4 times better than Google BigQuery in terms of total cost of the
benchmark workload across the examined cluster classes.
"Customers need a
high-performance analytics solution that is designed to meet their evolving
business requirements, at an attractive price-point, as they migrate their data
infrastructure to the cloud," said Emma McGrattan, SVP of Engineering at
Actian. "GigaOm's findings provide empirical proof that Actian's Avalanche
hybrid cloud data warehouse's superior architecture delivers performance and
cost savings that data-driven organizations can bank on for real-time
operational insights."
Known for technology
innovation, The AA, the UK's largest
motoring organization, recently selected Actian's Avalanche hybrid cloud data warehouse
for its insurance business as part of its cloud migration strategy. Avalanche's
high performance, scalability, and pay-as-you-go subscription pricing
contributed to the decision, and together, Actian will enable The AA to process
its data science workloads at lightning speed, effortlessly analyzing
operational data in real-time to provide customized services to its members.
"Price and performance are
critical points of interest when it comes to selecting an analytics platform,
because they ultimately impact total cost of ownership, value, and user
satisfaction," said William McKnight, GigaOm Research Analyst. "Our in-depth
analysis reveals Actian's Avalanche cloud data warehouse service to be the
industry leader on this criterion."
To read the complete benchmark report, please
visit
https://www.actian.com/resources/gigaom-benchmark-registration/.