2022 Readers’ & Editors’ Choice Awards

Every year, BigDATAwire conducts our annual Readers’ Choice Awards to recognize the companies and products that have made a difference in the big data community and provide insight into the current state of the industry. These awards, now in their seventh year, are nominated and voted on by the global Big Data community, and are announced and presented in conjunction with AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Nevada.

These annual awards are are gaining recognition as being among the most prestigious recognition given by the big data and AI community to its own each year, and are the only awards that provide open voting to a worldwide audience of end users. They are given in the form of both “Readers’ Choice” and “Editors’ Choice.”

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Best Data and AI Product or Technology:
Machine Learning and Data Science Platform

Readers’ Choice:

Dataiku

Editors’ Choice:

DataRobot AI Cloud

 

Best Data and AI Product or Technology:
Edge and Internet of Things

Readers’ Choice:

Confluent Cloud

Editors’ Choice:

Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin

 

Best Data and AI Product or Technology:
Stream Processing and Streaming Analytics

Readers’ Choice:

Confluent Cloud

Editors’ Choice:

Apache Flink

 

Best Data and AI Product or Technology:
Business Intelligence and Data Visualization

Readers’ Choice:

Tableau

Editors’ Choice:

ThoughtSpot

 

Best Data and AI Product or Technology:
Transactional Database

Readers’ Choice:

PostgreSQL

Editors’ Choice:

MongoDB

 

Best Data and AI Product or Technology:
Analytics Database

Readers’ Choice:

Apache Druid

Editors’ Choice:

TigerGraph Enterprise

 

Best Data and AI Product or Technology:
Cloud Data Service

Readers’ Choice:

Redis Enterprise Cloud by Redis

Editors’ Choice:

Wasabi Cloud Storage

 

Best Data and AI Product or Technology:
Data Fabric/Data Mesh

Readers’ Choice:

Starburst Enterprise

Editors’ Choice:

Cloudera Data Platform

 

Best Data Storage Solution

Readers’ Choice:

MinIO

Editors’ Choice:

StorMagic SvSAN

 

Top 3 Data and AI Startups

Readers’ Choice:

Starburst

Firebolt

Yellow.ai

Editors’ Choice:

Monte Carlo

Pecan AI

Acceldata

 

Top 3 Data and AI Vendors

Readers’ Choice:

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Editors’ Choice:

Confluent

Google Cloud

Microsoft Azure

 

Top 3 Data and AI Open Source Projects to Watch

Readers’ Choice:

Apache Cassandra

Apache Iceberg

Apache Pulsar

Editors’ Choice:

Redis

Presto

Delta Lake 2.0

 

Top Data and AI Achievement

Readers’ Choice:

Mapping Impacts of Climate Change — President Biden’s National Climate Taskforce leverages geographic information systems (GIS) from Esri and others to map the spread of heat-trapping gasses like carbon dioxide and methane; to help place green energy sources like offshore wind and solar farms; and to predict where extreme weather is most likely to occur.

Editors’ Choice:

Leveraging Medical Data in the Cloud — Providence Health and Services, one of the country’s largest healthcare groups, overcomes security obstacles to unleash the power of data in the Microsoft Azure cloud with advanced analytics, machine learning, and streaming data use cases.