Data warehouses and lakehouses
Where analytics data lives: warehouses, lakes and lakehouses. Evaluated by The Forrester Wave, GigaOm Radar, GigaOm Radar, The Forrester Wave, The Forrester Wave and IDC MarketScape, 2020 to 2026: 14 reports, 18 vendors. Gartner has no Magic Quadrant for this market; these are the firms that evaluate it. Each firm below runs newest first, with who moved since its edition before.
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Data Management for Analytics Platforms
The Forrester Wave · 3 editions, 2020 to 2025
The Forrester Wave: Data Management For Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025
Changes since 2023
IBM · No longer a Leader
The Forrester Wave: Data Management For Analytics, Q1 2023
Changes since 2020
IBM · New Leader
InterSystems · New in Strong Performers
The Forrester Wave: Data Management For Analytics, Q1 2020
Every vendor, year by year
LeadersStrong PerformersContendersChallengers· not placed
Data Lakes and Lakehouses
GigaOm Radar · 3 editions, 2023 to 2025
GigaOm Radar for Data Lakes and Lakehouses
Changes since 2024
Cloudera · No longer a Leader
GigaOm Radar for Data Lakes and Lakehouses
No change in the Leaders since 2023.GigaOm Radar for Data Lakes and Lakehouses
Every vendor, year by year
LeadersChallengersEntrants· not placed
Data Warehouses
GigaOm Radar · 3 editions, 2021 to 2025
GigaOm Radar for Data Warehouses
Changes since 2022
Microsoft · New Leader
Yellowbrick · No longer a Leader
GigaOm Radar for Data Warehouses
Changes since 2021
Yellowbrick · New Leader
Microsoft · No longer a Leader
GigaOm Radar for Data Warehouses
Every vendor, year by year
LeadersChallengersEntrants· not placed
Data Lakehouses
The Forrester Wave · 2 editions, 2024 to 2026
The Forrester Wave: Data Lakehouses, Q3 2026
Changes since 2024
Cloudera · New Leader
Databricks · No longer a Leader
Google · No longer a Leader
The Forrester Wave: Data Lakehouses, Q2 2024
Every vendor, year by year
LeadersStrong PerformersContendersChallengers· not placed
Cloud Data Warehouses
The Forrester Wave · 2 editions, 2021 to 2023
The Forrester Wave: Cloud Data Warehouses, Q2 2023
Changes since 2021
AWS · No longer a Leader (now Strong Performers)
Microsoft · No longer a Leader (now Strong Performers)
Exasol · Down: Strong Performers to Contenders
OpenText · Down: Strong Performers to Contenders
Actian · New in Contenders
Tencent Cloud · New in Contenders
The Forrester Wave: Cloud Data Warehouse, Q1 2021
Every vendor, year by year
LeadersStrong PerformersContendersChallengers· not placed
Data Platform Software
IDC MarketScape · 1 edition, 2025
Placements as each vendor or analyst firm publicly announced them; the tracker lists tiers only, never a report's chart or the positions inside a tier.