Actian Vector:
The High-Performance Analytic Database Engine for Hadoop
Actian Vector is the industry’s fastest analytic database. Vector’s ability to handle continuous updates without a performance penalty makes it an Operational Data Warehouse (ODW) capable of incorporating the latest business information into your analytic decision-making. Vector achieves extreme performance with full ACID compliance on Hadoop.
With Vector, you get more from your Hadoop investment.
Three Ways Vector Accelerates Hadoop Analytics

Scale-out Hadoop SQL performance
Dramatically improve performance by 100X with Actian Vector technology – enables extensibility of the world’s fastest database to accelerate SQL performance in Hadoop clusters. Workloads of standard benchmark queries that typically take over two hours with traditional SQL solutions on Hadoop finish in less than a minute running on Vector.

Zero-penalty, real-time data updates
Organizations no longer have to give up consistency for performance. Unlike traditional Hadoop analytics solutions, Vector for Hadoop can process real-time data updates without any associated performance penalty, ensuring that an organization’s analytic insight is always current, using the freshest data available.

Native Spark powered direct query access
Through its innovative native Spark support Vector delivers optimized access to Hadoop data file formats including Parquet and ORC, the ability to perform functions like SQL joins across different table types and serve as a faster query execution engine for SparkSQL and Spark R applications.

Watch this “Deep Dive” video with Actian’s SVP of Engineering, Emma McGrattan, to learn how Vector’s innovative architecture delivers superior performance at scale.
“For the past 20 years, I’ve been searching for the killer database that would fulfill most of our intense data processing needs and with the discovery of Actian Vector, that search is now over – this database is in a class of its own. Right out of the box, Actian Vector lets us effortlessly plow through millions and millions of rows of data with infinite width and depth and without the need for new expensive hardware, complicated schemas, explicit indexing, pre-aggregation, or specifically hand-crafted DBA-tuned SQL. The Actian leaders and technologists have performed a miracle here.”
— Warren Master, CTO, The Rohatyn Group




