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Buyers Guides for Data Platforms
2025 Software Provider and Product Assessment
Our Data Platforms Buyers Guide is designed to provide a holistic view of a software provider’s ability to serve a combination of both operational and analytic workloads with either a single data platform product or set of data platform products.
The Buyers Guides for Data Platforms evaluate providers across three software categories with a unique Buyers Guide and research for each category to help enterprises assess and select software providers.
- The Data Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates 24 software providers and products in key areas, including data persistence, data management, data processing and data query; database administrator functionality; developer functionality; data engineering functionality; and data architect functionality. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, Cloudera, Couchbase, EDB, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, InterSystems, MariaDB, Microsoft, Neo4j, Oracle, Percona, PingCAP, Progress Software, Salesforce, SAP, SingleStore, Tencent Cloud and Vast Data.
- The Analytic Data Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates 32 software providers and products in key areas, including data persistence, data management, data processing and data query; database administrator functionality; developer functionality; data engineering functionality; and data architect functionality. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, Cloudera, Couchbase, Databricks, Dremio, EDB, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Incorta, InterSystems, KX, MariaDB, Microsoft, Neo4j, OpenText, Oracle, Percona, PingCAP, Progress Software, Salesforce, SAP, SingleStore, Snowflake, Starburst, Tencent Cloud, Teradata and VAST Data.
- The Operational Data Platforms Buyers Guide evaluates 30 software providers and products in key areas, including data persistence, data management, data processing and data query; database administrator functionality; developer functionality; data engineering functionality; and data architect functionality. The guide assesses the following providers: Actian, Aerospike, Aiven, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Broadcom, Cloudera, Cockroach Labs, Couchbase, EDB, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, IBM, IBM DataStax, InterSystems, MariaDB, Microsoft, MongoDB, Neo4j, Oracle, Percona, PingCAP, Progress Software, Redis, Salesforce, SAP, SingleStore, Tencent Cloud, VAST Data and Yugabyte.
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