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