Data Quadrant Awards 2024
Analytical Data Store
SoftwareReviews names Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Oracle Exadata, and Base SAS as Analytical Data Store Data Quadrant Award Winners.
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Analytical Data Store
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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Note Software product placement is based on the scores provided by users, recency of the reviews, and review volume. Axes are dynamically adjusted based on the minimum and maximum values in the data set.
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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.
8.9
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
90%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Google BigQuery
BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you have no infrastructure to manage and don't need a database administrator, use familiar SQL and can take advantage of pay-as-you-go model.
8.8
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+90
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
87%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Amazon
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at any scale.
8.7
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
88%
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.
8.3
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+95
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
88%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
SAS Institute Inc.
Base SAS
Flexible, extensible 4GL and web-based interface for data access, transformation and reporting.
8.1
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
90%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Oracle Exadata
Breadth of Features
Google BigQuery
Business Value Created
Oracle Exadata
Ease of Customization
Snowflake
Ease of Data Integration
Oracle Exadata
Ease of IT Administration
Google BigQuery
Ease of Implementation
Base SAS
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Oracle Exadata
Quality of Features
Base SAS
Usability and Intuitiveness
Oracle Exadata
Vendor Support
Google BigQuery
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Oracle Exadata
Breadth of Features
Google BigQuery
Business Value Created
Oracle Exadata
Ease of Customization
Snowflake
Ease of Data Integration
Oracle Exadata
Ease of IT Administration
Google BigQuery
Ease of Implementation
Base SAS
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Oracle Exadata
Quality of Features
Base SAS
Usability and Intuitiveness
Oracle Exadata
Vendor Support
Google BigQuery
Other Evaluated Vendors
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.
7.7
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+85
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
85%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
SAP
SAP HANA Cloud
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.
7.6
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+84
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
86%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
OpenText Corporation
Vertica Analytics Platform
Vertica is the market-leading analytical database, delivering the best value for the highest performance. Any data analytics, at any scale, anywhere.
7.5
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+83
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
81%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Microsoft Corporation
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.
7.5
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+81
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
77%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
VMware, Inc.
VMWare Greenplum
VMware Greenplum is a massively parallel processing (MPP) data platform for large-scale analytics and data warehousing, available on-premises and in the cloud.
7.3
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+81
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
83%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Splunk
Splunk Cloud Platform
Search, analyze, visualize and act on your data with a flexible and cost-effective data platform service.
7.2
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+86
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
86%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Teradata
Teradata VantageCloud
Power faster innovation with Teradata VantageCloud, the complete cloud analytics and data platform.
7.1
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+77
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
82%
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.
