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Event streaming and real-time processing. Evaluated by GigaOm Radar, The Forrester Wave, IDC MarketScape and IDC MarketScape, 2021 to 2026: 10 reports, 31 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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Streaming Data Platforms
GigaOm Radar · 5 editions, 2022 to 2026
GigaOm Radar for Streaming Data Platforms v6
Changes since 2025
Confluent · New Leader (was Challengers)
TIBCO · New Leader
Materialize · New in Challengers
VAST Data · New in Challengers
Cloud Software Group · Dropped (was Challengers)
Decodable · Dropped (was Entrants)
GigaOm Radar for Streaming Data Platforms v5
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
GigaOm Radar for Streaming Data Platforms v4
Changes since 2023
Cloudera · New Leader
Microsoft · New Leader
Oracle · New Leader
StreamNative · New Leader
Striim · New Leader
AWS · New in Challengers
EsperTech · New in Challengers
SAS · New in Challengers
GigaOm Radar for Streaming Data Platforms v3.0
Changes since 2022
Hazelcast · New Leader
GigaOm Radar for Streaming Data Platforms: Cloud Providers, Enterprise Incumbents, and Data Platform Vendors v2.0
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LeadersChallengersEntrants· not placed
Streaming Data Platforms
The Forrester Wave · 3 editions, 2021 to 2025
The Forrester Wave: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025
Changes since 2023
Ververica · New Leader (was Contenders)
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)
The Forrester Wave: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023
Changes since 2021
Alibaba Cloud · Dropped (was Strong Performers)
KX · Dropped (was Contenders)
The Forrester Wave: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021
Every vendor, year by year
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| AWS | Strong Performers | Strong Performers | Strong Performers |
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LeadersStrong PerformersContendersChallengers· not placed
Event Brokering Software
IDC MarketScape · 1 edition, 2024
Analytic Stream Processing Software
IDC MarketScape · 1 edition, 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.