Data Quadrant Awards 2020

Big Data

SoftwareReviews names Amazon Web Services Big Data, IBM InfoSphere, and Microsoft Azure Big Data as Big Data Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Big Data

Data Quadrant

Data Quadrants are proudly founded in 100% user review data and are free of traditional “magical” components such as market presence and analyst opinion, which are opaque in nature and may be influenced by vendor pressure, financial or otherwise.

The SoftwareReviews Data Quadrant evaluates and ranks products based on feedback from IT and business professionals. The placement of a software in the Data Quadrant indicates its relative ranking as well as its categorization.

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A thorough evaluation and ranking of all software in an individual category to compare software across every dimension.

user satisfaction rankings
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vendor capability comparisons
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business value scores
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individual feature evaluations
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emotional connection to products

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

69Reviews

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services Big Data

Amazon Web Services provides a broad range of services to help you build and deploy Big Data applications quickly and easily. AWS gives you fast access to flexible and low cost IT resources, so you can rapidly scale virtually any big data application including data warehousing, clickstream analytics, fraud detection, recommendation engines, event-driven ETL, serverless computing, and internet-of-things processing.

8.1

Composite
Score

+84

Emotional
Footprint

82%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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39Reviews

Microsoft

Microsoft Azure Big Data

Data volumes are exploding—from traditional point-of-sale systems and e-commerce websites to new customer sentiment sources like Twitter and IoT sensors that stream data in real time using Apache Hadoop and Spark. By analyzing a diverse dataset from the start, you’ll make more informed decisions that are predictive and holistic rather than reactive and disconnected.

8.0

Composite
Score

+82

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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24Reviews

IBM

IBM InfoSphere

Gain industry-leading database performance across multiple workloads while lowering administration, storage, development and server costs; Realize extreme speed with capabilities optimized for analytics workloads such as deep analytics, and benefit from workload-optimized systems that can be up and running in hours.

8.0

Composite
Score

+85

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Cloudera Big Data

Breadth of Features

Cloudera Big Data

Business Value Created

Hortonworks Data Platform

Ease of Customization

Cloudera Big Data

Ease of Data Integration

Cloudera Big Data

Ease of IT Administration

Hortonworks Data Platform

Ease of Implementation

Cloudera Big Data

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Hortonworks Data Platform

Quality of Features

Hortonworks Data Platform

Usability and Intuitiveness

Hortonworks Data Platform

Vendor Support

SAS Hadoop

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Cloudera Big Data

Breadth of Features

Cloudera Big Data

Business Value Created

Hortonworks Data Platform

Ease of Customization

Cloudera Big Data

Ease of Data Integration

Cloudera Big Data

Ease of IT Administration

Hortonworks Data Platform

Ease of Implementation

Cloudera Big Data

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Hortonworks Data Platform

Quality of Features

Hortonworks Data Platform

Usability and Intuitiveness

Hortonworks Data Platform

Vendor Support

SAS Hadoop

Other Evaluated Vendors

14Reviews

Cloudera

Cloudera Big Data

Cloudera offers the highest performance and lowest cost platform for using data to drive better business outcomes. Powered by the world’s most popular Apache Hadoop distribution, Cloudera Enterprise lets you focus on results.

7.9

Composite
Score

+71

Emotional
Footprint

78%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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13Reviews

Hortonworks

Hortonworks Data Platform

HDP is the industry's only true secure, enterprise-ready open source Apache™ Hadoop® distribution based on a centralized architecture (YARN). HDP addresses the complete needs of data-at-rest, powers real-time customer applications and delivers robust analytics that accelerate decision making and innovation.

7.9

Composite
Score

+79

Emotional
Footprint

79%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

11Reviews

SAS

SAS Hadoop

Hadoop is an open-source software framework for storing data and running applications on clusters of commodity hardware. It provides massive storage for any kind of data, enormous processing power and the ability to handle virtually limitless concurrent tasks or jobs.

7.8

Composite
Score

+70

Emotional
Footprint

88%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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10Reviews

Micro Focus

Micro Focus Vertica

With Micro Focus Vertica, your queries will run 50-1,000x faster than any data warehouse or database technology. It’s proven to run at petabyte-scale and gives you complete openness to use any BI/ETL tool, run as SQL on Hadoop, and leverage scalable predictive analytics and a comprehensive library of built-in analytical functions.

7.5

Composite
Score

+71

Emotional
Footprint

77%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair). The top 5 vendors in a software category are eligible for awards pending composite scores achieve a sufficiently high satisfaction threshold.

Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.