Who analysts call Leaders

244 reports · 352 vendors

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

  1. 20252 Leaders

    The Forrester Wave: Data Management For Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025

    Changes since 2023

    • IBM · No longer a Leader
  2. 20233 Leaders, 1 in other tiers2023-03-01

    The Forrester Wave: Data Management For Analytics, Q1 2023

    Changes since 2020

    • IBM · New Leader
    • InterSystems · New in Strong Performers
  3. 20202 Leaders2020-02-12

    The Forrester Wave: Data Management For Analytics, Q1 2020

Every vendor, year by year

Vendor202020232025
GoogleLeadersLeadersLeaders
TeradataLeadersLeadersLeaders
IBM·Leaders·
InterSystems·Strong Performers·

LeadersStrong PerformersContendersChallengers· not placed

Data Lakes and Lakehouses

GigaOm Radar · 3 editions, 2023 to 2025

  1. 20251 Leader2025-06-18

    GigaOm Radar for Data Lakes and Lakehouses

    Changes since 2024

    • Cloudera · No longer a Leader
  2. 20242 Leaders

    GigaOm Radar for Data Lakes and Lakehouses

    No change in the Leaders since 2023.
  3. 20232 Leaders

    GigaOm Radar for Data Lakes and Lakehouses

Every vendor, year by year

Vendor202320242025
StarburstLeadersLeadersLeaders
ClouderaLeadersLeaders·

LeadersChallengersEntrants· not placed

Data Warehouses

GigaOm Radar · 3 editions, 2021 to 2025

  1. 20251 Leader

    GigaOm Radar for Data Warehouses

    Changes since 2022

    • Microsoft · New Leader
    • Yellowbrick · No longer a Leader
  2. 20221 Leader2022-12-01

    GigaOm Radar for Data Warehouses

    Changes since 2021

    • Yellowbrick · New Leader
    • Microsoft · No longer a Leader
  3. 20211 Leader2021-08-06

    GigaOm Radar for Data Warehouses

Every vendor, year by year

Vendor202120222025
MicrosoftLeaders·Leaders
Yellowbrick·Leaders·

LeadersChallengersEntrants· not placed

Data Lakehouses

The Forrester Wave · 2 editions, 2024 to 2026

  1. 20261 Leader

    The Forrester Wave: Data Lakehouses, Q3 2026

    Changes since 2024

    • Cloudera · New Leader
    • Databricks · No longer a Leader
    • Google · No longer a Leader
  2. 20242 Leaders2024-04-30

    The Forrester Wave: Data Lakehouses, Q2 2024

Every vendor, year by year

Vendor20242026
Cloudera·Leaders
DatabricksLeaders·
GoogleLeaders·

LeadersStrong PerformersContendersChallengers· not placed

Cloud Data Warehouses

The Forrester Wave · 2 editions, 2021 to 2023

  1. 20234 Leaders, 11 in other tiers2023-06-26

    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
  2. 20216 Leaders, 7 in other tiers2021-03-24

    The Forrester Wave: Cloud Data Warehouse, Q1 2021

Every vendor, year by year

Vendor20212023
GoogleLeadersLeaders
OracleLeadersLeaders
SnowflakeLeadersLeaders
TeradataLeadersLeaders
AWSLeadersStrong Performers
MicrosoftLeadersStrong Performers
Alibaba CloudStrong PerformersStrong Performers
ClouderaStrong PerformersStrong Performers
IBMStrong PerformersStrong Performers
SAPStrong PerformersStrong Performers
ExasolStrong PerformersContenders
OpenTextStrong PerformersContenders
YellowbrickContendersContenders
Actian·Contenders
Tencent Cloud·Contenders

LeadersStrong PerformersContendersChallengers· not placed

Data Platform Software

IDC MarketScape · 1 edition, 2025

  1. 20251 Leader, 1 in other tiers2025-07-01

    IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Platform Software 2025 Vendor Assessment

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.