2024 Readers’ & Editors’ Choice Awards

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: Data Fabric / Data Mesh

Readers’ Choice:

TIBCO Platform

Editors’ Choice:

Coalesce

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.