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

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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

79Reviews

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

+91

Emotional
Footprint

90%

Likeliness to
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to Recommend

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68Reviews

Google

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

+90

Emotional
Footprint

87%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
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104Reviews

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

+91

Emotional
Footprint

88%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
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26Reviews

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

+95

Emotional
Footprint

88%

Likeliness to
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27Reviews

SAS Institute Inc.

Base SAS

Flexible, extensible 4GL and web-based interface for data access, transformation and reporting.

8.1

Composite
Score

+89

Emotional
Footprint

90%

Likeliness to
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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

44Reviews

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

+85

Emotional
Footprint

85%

Likeliness to
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37Reviews

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

+84

Emotional
Footprint

86%

Likeliness to
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27Reviews

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

+83

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
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to Recommend

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60Reviews

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

+81

Emotional
Footprint

77%

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11Reviews

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

+81

Emotional
Footprint

83%

Likeliness to
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11Reviews

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

+86

Emotional
Footprint

86%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
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18Reviews

Teradata

Teradata VantageCloud

Power faster innovation with Teradata VantageCloud, the complete cloud analytics and data platform.

7.1

Composite
Score

+77

Emotional
Footprint

82%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

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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.