Buyers Guides for Data Platforms

2024 Software Provider and Product Assessment

The Data Platforms Buyers Guide is designed to provide a holistic view of a software provider’s ability to serve a combination of both operational and analytic workloads with either a single data platform product or set of data platform products. Separately, we have also created the Operational Data Platforms Buyers Guide, which assesses software providers and products positioned as operational data platforms on their ability to serve the specific requirements of operational use cases, and the Analytic Data Platforms Buyers Guide, which excludes dedicated operational functionality and data platforms.

• The Data Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates products that address key elements of data platforms to support a combination of both operational and analytic workloads. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Cloudera, Couchbase, EDB, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, InterSystems, MariaDB, Microsoft, MongoDB, Neo4j, Oracle, Percona, PingCAP, Progress Software, Salesforce, SAP, SingleStore, Tencent Cloud, TigerGraph and VMware by Broadcom.

• The Analytic Data Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates products that are considered analytic data platforms as we define it. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Cloudera, Couchbase, Databricks, Dremio, EDB, Exasol, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Incorta, InterSystems, KX, MariaDB, Microsoft, MongoDB, Neo4j, Oracle, OpenText, Percona, PingCAP, Progress Software, Salesforce, SAP, SingleStore, Snowflake, SQream, Starburst, Tencent Cloud, Teradata, TigerGraph and VMware by Broadcom.

• The Operational Data Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates the products positioned as operational data platforms on their ability to serve the specific requirements of operational use cases. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aerospike, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Cloudera, Cockroach Labs, Couchbase, DataStax, EDB, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, InterSystems, MariaDB, Microsoft, MongoDB, Neo4j, Oracle, Percona, PingCAP, PlanetScale, Progress Software, Redis, Salesforce, SAP, ScyllaDB, SingleStore, Tencent Cloud, TigerGraph, VMware by Broadcom and Yugabyte.

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