Streaming data
Event streaming and real-time processing. Evaluated by GigaOm Radar, The Forrester Wave, IDC MarketScape, 2021 to 2026: 10 reports, 31 vendors. Each firm below runs newest first, with who moved since its edition before.
Streaming Data Platforms
GigaOm Radar · 5 editions, 2022 to 2026
2026
2026-04-09
GigaOm Radar for Streaming Data Platforms v68 Leaders, 10 in other tiers
Cloudera
Confluent
Hazelcast
Microsoft
Oracle
StreamNative
Striim
TIBCO
Changes since 2025
Materialize · New in Challengers
VAST Data · New in Challengers
Cloud Software Group · Dropped (was Challengers)
Decodable · Dropped (was Entrants)
2025
2025-05-02
GigaOm Radar for Streaming Data Platforms v56 Leaders, 11 in other tiers
Changes since 2024
Google · No longer a Leader (now Challengers)
Cogility · New in Challengers
DeltaStream · New in Challengers
IBM · New in Challengers
Informatica · New in Challengers
2024
2024-04-15
GigaOm Radar for Streaming Data Platforms v48 Leaders, 4 in other tiers
Changes since 2023
AWS · New in Challengers
EsperTech · New in Challengers
SAS · New in Challengers
2023
2023-04-13
GigaOm Radar for Streaming Data Platforms v3.01 Leader
Changes since 2022
2022
2022-03-18
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LeadersChallengersEntrants· not placed
Streaming Data Platforms
The Forrester Wave · 3 editions, 2021 to 2025
2025
2025-11-25
The Forrester Wave: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 20254 Leaders, 9 in other tiers
Ververica
Changes since 2023
Aiven · Up: Contenders to Strong Performers
Redpanda · New in Contenders
Solace · New in Strong Performers
Red Hat · Dropped (was Challengers)
Software AG · Dropped (was Contenders)
2023
2023-12-06
The Forrester Wave: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 20233 Leaders, 11 in other tiers
Changes since 2021
Alibaba Cloud · Dropped (was Strong Performers)
KX · Dropped (was Contenders)
2021
2021-06-07
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Event Brokering Software
IDC MarketScape · 1 edition, 2024
2024
IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Event Brokering Software 2024 Vendor Assessment4 Leaders, 4 in other tiers
Analytic Stream Processing Software
IDC MarketScape · 1 edition, 2024
2024
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.