Best Big Data Platforms
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What are Big Data Platforms?
Big data platforms are systems that provide the infrastructure and tools needed to store, manage, process, and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data. These platforms typically offer scalable storage solutions, high-performance computing capabilities, and advanced analytics tools to help organizations extract insights from massive datasets. Big data platforms often support technologies such as distributed computing, machine learning, and real-time data processing, allowing businesses to leverage their data for decision-making, predictive analytics, and process optimization. By using these platforms, organizations can handle complex datasets efficiently, uncover hidden patterns, and drive data-driven innovation. Compare and read user reviews of the best Big Data platforms currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Google Cloud BigQuery
Google
BigQuery is designed to handle and analyze big data, making it an ideal tool for businesses working with massive datasets. Whether you are processing gigabytes or petabytes, BigQuery scales automatically and delivers high-performance queries, making it highly efficient. With BigQuery, organizations can analyze data at unprecedented speed, helping them stay ahead in fast-moving industries. New customers can leverage the $300 in free credits to explore BigQuery's big data capabilities, gaining practical experience in managing and analyzing large volumes of information. The platform’s serverless architecture ensures that users never have to worry about scaling issues, making big data management simpler than ever.Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits) -
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MongoDB Atlas
MongoDB
The most innovative cloud database service on the market, with unmatched data distribution and mobility across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, built-in automation for resource and workload optimization, and so much more. MongoDB Atlas is the global cloud database service for modern applications. Deploy fully managed MongoDB across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure with best-in-class automation and proven practices that guarantee availability, scalability, and compliance with the most demanding data security and privacy standards. The best way to deploy, run, and scale MongoDB in the cloud. MongoDB Atlas offers built-in security controls for all your data. Enable enterprise-grade features to integrate with your existing security protocols and compliance standards. With MongoDB Atlas, your data is protected with preconfigured security features for authentication, authorization, encryption, and more.Starting Price: $0.08/hour -
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Google Cloud Platform
Google
Google Cloud Platform excels in managing and analyzing big data through tools like BigQuery, a serverless data warehouse for fast querying and analysis. GCP also offers services such as Dataflow, Dataproc, and Pub/Sub, which allow businesses to efficiently process and analyze large datasets. With the added benefit of $300 in free credits for new customers to run, test, and deploy workloads, organizations can start exploring big data solutions without the financial commitment, accelerating their data-driven insights and innovations. The platform’s highly scalable architecture enables companies to process terabytes to petabytes of data quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional data solutions. GCP's big data solutions are designed to integrate well with machine learning tools, creating a comprehensive environment for data scientists and analysts to gain valuable insights.Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits) -
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Satori
Satori
Satori is a Data Security Platform (DSP) that enables self-service data and analytics. Unlike the traditional manual data access process, with Satori, users have a personal data portal where they can see all available datasets and gain immediate access to them. Satori’s DSP dynamically applies the appropriate security and access policies, and the users get secure data access in seconds instead of weeks. Satori’s comprehensive DSP manages access, permissions, security, and compliance policies - all from a single console. Satori continuously discovers sensitive data across data stores and dynamically tracks data usage while applying relevant security policies. Satori enables data teams to scale effective data usage across the organization while meeting all data security and compliance requirements. -
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RaimaDB
Raima
RaimaDB is an embedded time series database for IoT and Edge devices that can run in-memory. It is an extremely powerful, lightweight and secure RDBMS. Field tested by over 20 000 developers worldwide and has more than 25 000 000 deployments. RaimaDB is a high-performance, cross-platform embedded database designed for mission-critical applications, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing markets. It offers a small footprint, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments, and supports both in-memory and persistent storage configurations. RaimaDB provides developers with multiple data modeling options, including traditional relational models and direct relationships through network model sets. It ensures data integrity with ACID-compliant transactions and supports various indexing methods such as B+Tree, Hash Table, R-Tree, and AVL-Tree. -
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iceDQ
Torana
iceDQ is the #1 data reliability platform offering powerful, unified capabilities for Data Testing, Data Monitoring, and Data Observability. Designed for modern data environments, iceDQ automates complex data pipelines and data migration testing to ensure accuracy, integrity, and trust in your data systems. Its AI-based observability engine continuously monitors data in real-time, quickly detecting anomalies and minimizing business risks. With robust cross-platform connectivity, iceDQ supports seamless data validation, data profiling, and data reconciliation across diverse sources — including databases, files, data lakes, SaaS applications, and cloud environments. Whether you're migrating data, ensuring ETL/ELT process quality, or monitoring live data streams, iceDQ helps enterprises deliver high-quality, reliable data at scale. From financial services to healthcare and beyond, organizations rely on iceDQ to make confident, data-driven decisions backed by trusted data pipelines.Starting Price: $1000 -
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MongoDB
MongoDB
MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. No database is more productive to use. Ship and iterate 3–5x faster with our flexible document data model and a unified query interface for any use case. Whether it’s your first customer or 20 million users around the world, meet your performance SLAs in any environment. Easily ensure high availability, protect data integrity, and meet the security and compliance standards for your mission-critical workloads. An integrated suite of cloud database services that allow you to address a wide variety of use cases, from transactional to analytical, from search to data visualizations. Launch secure mobile apps with native, edge-to-cloud sync and automatic conflict resolution. Run MongoDB anywhere, from your laptop to your data center.Starting Price: Free -
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft
Microsoft's Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows for rapid and secure application development, testing and management. Azure. Invent with purpose. Turn ideas into solutions with more than 100 services to build, deploy, and manage applications—in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge—using the tools and frameworks of your choice. Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want, and deploy where you want to. On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge—we’ll meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with services designed for hybrid cloud. Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups. The cloud you can trust, with the numbers to prove it. -
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QuerySurge
RTTS
QuerySurge leverages AI to automate the data validation and ETL testing of Big Data, Data Warehouses, Business Intelligence Reports and Enterprise Apps/ERPs with full DevOps functionality for continuous testing. Use Cases - Data Warehouse & ETL Testing - Hadoop & NoSQL Testing - DevOps for Data / Continuous Testing - Data Migration Testing - BI Report Testing - Enterprise App/ERP Testing QuerySurge Features - Projects: Multi-project support - AI: automatically create datas validation tests based on data mappings - Smart Query Wizards: Create tests visually, without writing SQL - Data Quality at Speed: Automate the launch, execution, comparison & see results quickly - Test across 200+ platforms: Data Warehouses, Hadoop & NoSQL lakes, databases, flat files, XML, JSON, BI Reports - DevOps for Data & Continuous Testing: RESTful API with 60+ calls & integration with all mainstream solutions - Data Analytics & Data Intelligence: Analytics dashboard & reports -
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Pentaho
Hitachi Vantara
With an integrated product suite providing data integration, analytics, cataloging, optimization and quality, Pentaho+ enables seamless data management, driving innovation and informed decision-making. Pentaho+ has helped customers achieve a 3x increase in improved data trust, a 7x increase in impactful business results and most importantly, a 70% increase in productivity. -
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Improvado
Improvado
Improvado is an AI-powered marketing intelligence platform that enables marketing and analytics teams to unlock the full potential of their data for impactful business decisions. Designed for medium to large enterprises and agencies, Improvado seamlessly integrates, simplifies, governs, and attributes complex data from various sources, delivering a unified view of marketing ROI and performance. With 500+ ready-made connectors extracting over 40,000 data fields from virtually every marketing platform you use, Improvado seamlessly: - Integrates all your marketing and sales data into a unified dashboard - Normalizes disparate data structures into consistent, usable formats - Generates instant reports that previously took days to compile manually - Delivers real-time cross-channel performance insights - Automatically updates your visualization tools like Tableau, Looker, or Power BI -
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Elasticsearch
Elastic
Elastic is a search company. As the creators of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic builds self-managed and SaaS offerings that make data usable in real time and at scale for search, logging, security, and analytics use cases. Elastic's global community has more than 100,000 members across 45 countries. Since its initial release, Elastic's products have achieved more than 400 million cumulative downloads. Today thousands of organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Dell, Goldman Sachs, Groupon, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, The New York Times, Uber, Verizon, Yelp, and Wikipedia, use the Elastic Stack, and Elastic Cloud to power mission-critical systems that drive new revenue opportunities and massive cost savings. Elastic has headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Mountain View, California; and has over 1,000 employees in more than 35 countries around the world. -
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Narrative
Narrative
Create new streams of revenue using the data you already collect with your own branded data shop. Narrative is focused on the fundamental principles that make buying and selling data easier, safer, and more strategic. Ensure that the data you access meets your standards, whatever they may be. Know exactly who you’re working with and how the data was collected. Easily access new supply and demand for a more agile and accessible data strategy. Own your data strategy entirely with end-to-end control of inputs and outputs. Our platform simplifies and automates the most time- and labor-intensive aspects of data acquisition, so you can access new data sources in days, not months. With filters, budget controls, and automatic deduplication, you’ll only ever pay for the data you need, and nothing that you don’t.Starting Price: $0 -
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StarTree
StarTree
StarTree, powered by Apache Pinot™, is a fully managed real-time analytics platform built for customer-facing applications that demand instant insights on the freshest data. Unlike traditional data warehouses or OLTP databases—optimized for back-office reporting or transactions—StarTree is engineered for real-time OLAP at true scale, meaning: - Data Volume: query performance sustained at petabyte scale - Ingest Rates: millions of events per second, continuously indexed for freshness - Concurrency: thousands to millions of simultaneous users served with sub-second latency With StarTree, businesses deliver always-fresh insights at interactive speed, enabling applications that personalize, monitor, and act in real time.Starting Price: Free -
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MANTA
Manta
Manta is the world-class automated approach to visualize, optimize, and modernize how data moves through your organization through code-level lineage. By automatically scanning your data environment with the power of 50+ out-of-the-box scanners, Manta builds a powerful map of all data pipelines to drive efficiency and productivity. Visit manta.io to learn more. With Manta platform, you can make your data a truly enterprise-wide asset, bridge the understanding gap, enable self-service, and easily: • Increase productivity • Accelerate development • Shorten time-to-market • Reduce costs and manual effort • Run instant and accurate root cause and impact analyses • Scope and perform effective cloud migrations • Improve data governance and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and more) • Increase data quality • Enhance data privacy and data security -
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Instaclustr
Instaclustr
Instaclustr is the Open Source-as-a-Service company, delivering reliability at scale. We operate an automated, proven, and trusted managed environment, providing database, analytics, search, and messaging. We enable companies to focus internal development and operational resources on building cutting edge customer-facing applications. Instaclustr works with cloud providers including AWS, Heroku, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform. The company has SOC 2 certification and provides 24/7 customer support.Starting Price: $20 per node per month -
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Qrvey
Qrvey
Qrvey pioneered multi-tenant self-service analytics for SaaS companies and now leads the evolution toward AI-driven, autonomous analytics. With over 20 years of experience, we provide industry-leading guidance and support, ensuring our clients achieve their analytics goals. Qrvey is the partner of choice for SaaS leaders bringing AI-driven insight to their customers. About Qrvey Platform Qrvey is the embedded analytics platform designed specifically for SaaS companies. Qrvey offers insight, agility and growth. Insight for your customers · True self-service with unlimited customization · AI-driven insights · No-code workflow automation Agility for your product team · End-to-end embedded analytics platform · Native multi-tenant security · Flexible multi-cloud deployments Growth for your business · Flat-rate pricing for scale · Unmatched monetization opportunities · Embedded services -
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DoubleCloud
DoubleCloud
Save time & costs by streamlining data pipelines with zero-maintenance open source solutions. From ingestion to visualization, all are integrated, fully managed, and highly reliable, so your engineers will love working with data. You choose whether to use any of DoubleCloud’s managed open source services or leverage the full power of the platform, including data storage, orchestration, ELT, and real-time visualization. We provide leading open source services like ClickHouse, Kafka, and Airflow, with deployment on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud. Our no-code ELT tool allows real-time data syncing between systems, fast, serverless, and seamlessly integrated with your existing infrastructure. With our managed open-source data visualization you can simply visualize your data in real time by building charts and dashboards. We’ve designed our platform to make the day-to-day life of engineers more convenient.Starting Price: $0.024 per 1 GB per month -
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Anodot
Anodot
Anodot applies AI to deliver autonomous analytics in real-time, across all data types, at enterprise scale. Unlike the manual limitations of traditional Business Intelligence, we provide analysts mastery over their business with a self-service AI platform that runs continuously to eliminate blind spots, alert incidents, and investigate root causes. Our platform uses patented machine learning algorithms to isolate issues and correlate them across multiple parameters. This helps eliminate business insight latency and supports smart, rapid business decision-making. Anodot has nearly 100 customers in digital transformation industries like eCommerce, FinTech, AdTech, Telco, Gaming, including Microsoft, Lyft, Waze, and King. Founded in 2014, Anodot is headquartered in Silicon Valley and Israel, with Sales offices worldwide. -
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Alooma
Google
Alooma enables data teams to have visibility and control. It brings data from your various data silos together into BigQuery, all in real time. Set up and flow data in minutes or customize, enrich, and transform data on the stream before it even hits the data warehouse. Never lose an event. Alooma's built in safety nets ensure easy error handling without pausing your pipeline. Any number of data sources, from low to high volume, Alooma’s infrastructure scales to your needs. -
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RapidMiner
Altair
RapidMiner is reinventing enterprise AI so that anyone has the power to positively shape the future. We’re doing this by enabling ‘data loving’ people of all skill levels, across the enterprise, to rapidly create and operate AI solutions to drive immediate business impact. We offer an end-to-end platform that unifies data prep, machine learning, and model operations with a user experience that provides depth for data scientists and simplifies complex tasks for everyone else. Our Center of Excellence methodology and the RapidMiner Academy ensures customers are successful, no matter their experience or resource levels. Simplify operations, no matter how complex models are, or how they were created. Deploy, evaluate, compare, monitor, manage and swap any model. Solve your business issues faster with sharper insights and predictive models, no one understands the business problem like you do.Starting Price: Free -
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Querona
YouNeedIT
We make BI & Big Data analytics work easier and faster. Our goal is to empower business users and make always-busy business and heavily loaded BI specialists less dependent on each other when solving data-driven business problems. If you have ever experienced a lack of data you needed, time to consuming report generation or long queue to your BI expert, consider Querona. Querona uses a built-in Big Data engine to handle growing data volumes. Repeatable queries can be cached or calculated in advance. Optimization needs less effort as Querona automatically suggests query improvements. Querona empowers business analysts and data scientists by putting self-service in their hands. They can easily discover and prototype data models, add new data sources, experiment with query optimization and dig in raw data. Less IT is needed. Now users can get live data no matter where it is stored. If databases are too busy to be queried live, Querona will cache the data. -
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Trendalyze
Trendalyze
Decisions can't wait. Compress machine learning projects from months to minutes. Like Google, our AI search engine brings you insights instantly. Inaccuracy costs money. Patterns reveal what KPIs and averages miss. TRND uncovers the patterns that provide the early warning signs missing from the KPIs. Empower the decision maker. Trends are most relevant to decision-makers who want to know whether a threat or an opportunity is bubbling up. In the digital economy knowledge is money. TRND enables creation of sharable pattern libraries that facilitate fast learning and deployment for business improvement. If you can't monitor all, you monetize none. TRND doesn't just find needles in haystacks; it constantly monitors all needles for relevant information. If you can't afford it, you can't do it. It used to be that scale broke the bank. Our search-based approach makes micro monitoring at scale affordable. -
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Sesame Software
Sesame Software
Sesame Software specializes in secure, efficient data integration and replication across diverse cloud, hybrid, and on-premise sources. Our patented scalability ensures comprehensive access to critical business data, facilitating a holistic view in the BI tools of your choice. This unified perspective empowers your own robust reporting and analytics, enabling your organization to regain control of your data with confidence. At Sesame Software, we understand what’s at stake when you need to move a massive amount of data between environments quickly—while keeping it protected, maintaining centralized access, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Over the past 23+ years, we’ve helped hundreds of organizations like Proctor & Gamble, Bank of America, and the U.S. government connect, move, store, and protect their data. -
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Google Cloud Dataproc
Google
Dataproc makes open source data and analytics processing fast, easy, and more secure in the cloud. Build custom OSS clusters on custom machines faster. Whether you need extra memory for Presto or GPUs for Apache Spark machine learning, Dataproc can help accelerate your data and analytics processing by spinning up a purpose-built cluster in 90 seconds. Easy and affordable cluster management. With autoscaling, idle cluster deletion, per-second pricing, and more, Dataproc can help reduce the total cost of ownership of OSS so you can focus your time and resources elsewhere. Security built in by default. Encryption by default helps ensure no piece of data is unprotected. With JobsAPI and Component Gateway, you can define permissions for Cloud IAM clusters, without having to set up networking or gateway nodes. -
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Tengu
Tengu
TENGU is a DataOps Orchestration Platform that works as a central workspace for data profiles of all levels. It provides data integration, extraction, transformation, loading all within it’s graph view UI in which you can intuitively monitor your data environment. By using the platform, business, analytics & data teams need fewer meetings and service tickets to collect data, and can start right away with the data relevant to furthering the company. The Platform offers a unique graph view in which every element is automatically generated with all available info based on metadata. While allowing you to perform all necessary actions from the same workspace. Enhance collaboration and efficiency, with the ability to quickly add and share comments, documentation, tags, groups. The platform enables anyone to get straight to the data with self-service. Thanks to the many automations and low to no-code functionalities and built-in assistant. -
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EC2 Spot
Amazon
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. You can use Spot Instances for various stateless, fault-tolerant, or flexible applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and test & development workloads. Because Spot Instances are tightly integrated with AWS services such as Auto Scaling, EMR, ECS, CloudFormation, Data Pipeline and AWS Batch, you can choose how to launch and maintain your applications running on Spot Instances. Moreover, you can easily combine Spot Instances with On-Demand, RIs and Savings Plans Instances to further optimize workload cost with performance. Due to the operating scale of AWS, Spot Instances can offer the scale and cost savings to run hyper-scale workloads.Starting Price: $0.01 per user, one-time payment, -
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Oracle Big Data Preparation
Oracle
Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service is a managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud-based offering that enables you to rapidly ingest, repair, enrich, and publish large data sets with end-to-end visibility in an interactive environment. You can integrate your data with other Oracle Cloud Services, such as Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service, for down-stream analysis. Profile metrics and visualizations are important features of Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service. When a data set is ingested, you have visual access to the profile results and summary of each column that was profiled, and the results of duplicate entity analysis completed on your entire data set. Visualize governance tasks on the service Home page with easily understood runtime metrics, data health reports, and alerts. Keep track of your transforms and ensure that files are processed correctly. See the entire data pipeline, from ingestion to enrichment and publishing. -
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The biggest challenge to scaling AI-powered decision-making is unused data. IBM Cloud Pak® for Data is a unified platform that delivers a data fabric to connect and access siloed data on-premises or across multiple clouds without moving it. Simplify access to data by automatically discovering and curating it to deliver actionable knowledge assets to your users, while automating policy enforcement to safeguard use. Further accelerate insights with an integrated modern cloud data warehouse. Universally safeguard data usage with privacy and usage policy enforcement across all data. Use a modern, high-performance cloud data warehouse to achieve faster insights. Empower data scientists, developers and analysts with an integrated experience to build, deploy and manage trustworthy AI models on any cloud. Supercharge analytics with Netezza, a high-performance data warehouse.Starting Price: $699 per month
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Conversionomics
Conversionomics
Set up all the automated connections you want, no per connection charges. Set up all the automated connections you want, no per-connection charges. Set up and scale your cloud data warehouse and processing operations – no tech expertise required. Improvise and ask the hard questions of your data – you’ve prepared it all with Conversionomics. It’s your data and you can do what you want with it – really. Conversionomics writes complex SQL for you to combine source data, lookups, and table relationships. Use preset Joins and common SQL or write your own SQL to customize your query and automate any action you could possibly want. Conversionomics is an efficient data aggregation tool that offers a simple user interface that makes it easy to quickly build data API sources. From those sources, you’ll be able to create impressive and interactive dashboards and reports using our templates or your favorite data visualization tools.Starting Price: $250 per month