Data Quadrant Awards 2019

Big Data

SoftwareReviews names IBM InfoSphere Big Data, Microsoft Azure Big Data, Amazon Web Services Big Data, and Hortonworks Data Platform 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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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

21Reviews

IBM

IBM InfoSphere Big Data

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.

8.5

Composite
Score

+87

Emotional
Footprint

82%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

53Reviews

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

+83

Emotional
Footprint

83%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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25Reviews

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.

8.1

Composite
Score

+84

Emotional
Footprint

78%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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14Reviews

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.

8.0

Composite
Score

+82

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

IBM InfoSphere Big Data

Breadth of Features

Amazon Web Services Big Data

Business Value Created

Hortonworks Data Platform

Ease of Customization

Hortonworks Data Platform

Ease of Data Integration

Hortonworks Data Platform

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

Micro Focus Vertica

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

IBM InfoSphere Big Data

Breadth of Features

Amazon Web Services Big Data

Business Value Created

Hortonworks Data Platform

Ease of Customization

Hortonworks Data Platform

Ease of Data Integration

Hortonworks Data Platform

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

Micro Focus Vertica

Other Evaluated Vendors

11Reviews

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.

7.7

Composite
Score

+67

Emotional
Footprint

80%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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12Reviews

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.

7.2

Composite
Score

+59

Emotional
Footprint

76%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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10Reviews

Informatica

Informatica Big Data

Ingest, process, clean, govern, and secure big data so organizations can repeatably deliver trusted information for analytics.

7.2

Composite
Score

+65

Emotional
Footprint

75%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

For the full press release, click here. For the full list of vendors in this space, click here.

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.