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 ninth year, are nominated and voted on by the global Big Data community.
These annual awards are gaining recognition for being among the most prestigious accolades given by the big data and AI community to its own, 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 AI Product: Generative AI
Readers’ Choice:
Vectara Platform
Editors’ Choice:
Scale AI’s Scale Data Engine
Best AI Product: Machine Learning and Data Science Platform
Readers’ Choice:
Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Editors’ Choice:
Dataiku
Best Big Data Product: Data Catalog / Security / Governance
Readers’ Choice:
Pentaho Data Catalog
Editors’ Choice:
Collibra Data Intelligence Platform
Best Big Data Product: Analytics Database, Data Lake, and Lakehouse
Readers’ Choice:
Dremio Unified Lakehouse Platform
Editors’ Choice:
Starburst Galaxy
Best Big Data Product: Business Intelligence and Data Visualization
Readers’ Choice:
Tableau
Editors’ Choice:
Microsoft PowerBI
Best Big Data Product: Storage
Readers’ Choice:
MinIO
Editors’ Choice:
Hammerspace Global Data Platform
Best Big Data Product: DataOps and Observability
Readers’ Choice:
Honeycomb Observability Platform
Editors’ Choice:
Cribl Cloud
Best Big Data Product: Stream Processing
Readers’ Choice:
Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Editors’ Choice:
Confluent Cloud
Best Big Data Product: Transactional and Operational Database
Readers’ Choice:
MongoDB
Editors’ Choice:
YugabyteDB
Top 3 Big Data and AI Open Source Projects to Watch
Readers’ Choice:
Apache Iceberg
Apache Flink
Apache Polaris
Editors’ Choice:
DuckDB
Apache Pinot
National Data Platform
Top 3 Big Data and AI Vendors to Watch
Readers’ Choice:
NVIDIA
Databricks
AWS
Editors’ Choice:
Confluent Cloud
Huggingface
Snorkel AI
Top Big Data and AI Achievement
Readers’ Choice:
Apache Iceberg emerges as defacto standard for open table formats – In June 2024, Databricks announced the acquisition of Tabular, the commercial venture behind Apache Iceberg, which signaled to the market that Iceberg had won the battle of the open table formats. This was a big win for open data and for customers’ ability to query data using whatever engines they wanted.
Editors’ Choice:
NIMs unveiled by Nvidia – In March 2024, Nvidia announced the launch of Nvidia Inference Microservices (NIM), which it touted as a standardized way to bundle everything a user needs to deploy a generative AI application, including AI models, integration code, into preconfigured Kubernetes Helm charts. The industry responded by building hundreds of pre-built NIM offerings.
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