2020 Datanami Readers’ Choice Awards

Datanami is pleased to announce the results of its fifth annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, which recognizes the companies, products, and projects that have made a difference in the big data community this year. These awards, which are nominated and voted on by Datanami readers, give us insight into the state of the community.

We’d like to thank our dedicated readers for weighing in on their top picks for the best in big data. It’s been a privilege for us to present these awards, and we extend our congratulations to this year’s winners.

Best Big Data Product or Technology: Machine Learning

Readers’ Choice: Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform

Editors’ Choice: Google BigQuery ML

Best Big Data Product or Technology: Internet of Things

Readers’ Choice: Google Cloud Platform

Editors’ Choice:  AWS IoT Core

Best Big Data Product or Technology: Big Data Security

Readers’ Choice: Open Raven Community Edition (CE) Platform

Editors’ Choice: Okera Active Data Access Platform

Best Big Data Product or Technology: Streaming Analytics

Readers’ Choice: Confluent Platform

Editors’ Choice: Redis Streams

Best Big Data Product or Technology: Data Visualization

Readers’ Choice: Tableau

Editors’ Choice: Looker

Best Big Data Product or Technology: Cloud Data Services

Readers’ Choice: Snowflake Data Cloud

Editors’ Choice: EXAScaler Cloud by DDN

Best Big Data Product or Technology: Data Management

Readers’ Choice: Talend Data Fabric

Editors’ Choice: Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud

Best Big Data Product or Technology: Operational Database

Readers’ Choice: MongoDB

Editors’ Choice: Neo4j 4.0

Best Big Data Product or Technology: Data Science Platform

Readers’ Choice: Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform

Editors’ Choice: C3 AI Suite

Best Big Data Product or Technology: BI and Analytics

Readers’ Choice: Yellowbrick Data Warehouse

Editors’ Choice: Dremio

Best Big Data Startup

Readers’ Choice: Cockroach Labs

Editors’ Choice: Ahana

Top 5 Open Source Projects to Watch

Readers’ Choice: Kubernetes | Apache Hadoop | Apache Cassandra | MongoDB  | Redis

Editors’ Choice: H2O.ai | PrestoSQL | Hazelcast |  MinIO | Apache Spark

Top 5 Vendors to Watch

Readers’ Choice: C3.ai | Okera | Cloudera | Cockroach Labs | Redis Labs

Editors’ Choice: Yellowbrick | TigerGraph | H2O.ai | Couchbase | DDN

Top Big Data Achievement

Readers’ Choice: C3.ai COVID-19 Data Lake

Editors’ Choice: 84.51 and Esri Childhood Hunger Project