Data Quadrant Awards 2021
Big Data/Analytical Data Store
SoftwareReviews names Snowflake and Oracle Exadata as Big Data/Analytical Data Store Data Quadrant Award Winners.
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Big Data/Analytical Data Store
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- emotional connection to products
Note The axes ranges are dynamically adjusted based on minimum and maximum values in the dataset
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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
Snowflake Inc.
Snowflake
Snowflake’s cloud data platform supports a multi-cloud strategy, including a cross-cloud approach to mix and match clouds as you see fit. Snowflake is available globally on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. With a common and interchangeable code base, Snowflake delivers advantages such as global data replication, which means you can move your data to any cloud in any region, without having to re-code your applications or learn new skills.
9.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+87
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
94%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Oracle
Oracle Exadata
The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is engineered to deliver dramatically better performance, cost effectiveness, and availability for Oracle databases. Exadata features a modern cloud-based architecture with scale-out high-performance database servers, scale-out intelligent storage servers with state-of-the-art PCI flash, and an ultra-fast InfiniBand internal fabric that connects all servers and storage.
8.7
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
84%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Oracle Exadata
Breadth of Features
SAP HANA
Business Value Created
Snowflake
Ease of Customization
Snowflake
Ease of Data Integration
Snowflake
Ease of IT Administration
Snowflake
Ease of Implementation
Snowflake
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Snowflake
Quality of Features
Snowflake
Usability and Intuitiveness
Snowflake
Vendor Support
Snowflake
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Oracle Exadata
Breadth of Features
SAP HANA
Business Value Created
Snowflake
Ease of Customization
Snowflake
Ease of Data Integration
Snowflake
Ease of IT Administration
Snowflake
Ease of Implementation
Snowflake
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Snowflake
Quality of Features
Snowflake
Usability and Intuitiveness
Snowflake
Vendor Support
Snowflake
Other Evaluated Vendors
Amazon.com
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.
8.2
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+84
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
84%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless or provisioned resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.
8.2
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+84
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
82%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
SAS Institute Inc.
SAS Big Data Analytics
Big data analytics examines large amounts of data to uncover hidden patterns, correlations and other insights. With today’s technology, it’s possible to analyze your data and get answers from it almost immediately – an effort that’s slower and less efficient with more traditional business intelligence solutions.
8.2
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+78
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
90%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Cloudera , Inc.
Cloudera Data Platform
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.
8.1
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+81
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
81%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
IBM
IBM Digital Insights
IBM Digital Insights is our data and analytics solution-as-a-service for data strategy and governance in a hybrid multicloud environment. A multi-tiered framework of capabilities focused on flexibility and portability, IBM Digital Insights helps you accelerate your business insights and customer knowledge, using data across any cloud. Explore these tabs to learn more about each layer in the framework.
8.1
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+86
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
82%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
SAP
SAP HANA
Harness the power of your data and accelerate trusted outcome-driven innovation by developing intelligent and live solutions for real-time decisions and actions on a single data copy. Support next-generation transactional and analytical processing with a broad set of advanced analytics – run securely across hybrid and multicloud environments.
8.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+75
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
83%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
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
Composite
Score
+71
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
78%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
For the full list of vendors in this space, click here.
About Gold Medal Awards and Software Reports
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).
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.
