The Coolest Data Warehouse Companies Of The 2022 Big Data 100

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data warehouse technology and service space.

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While some promote data lakes as the future of data analytics, data warehouse systems—whether on-premises or in the cloud—remain the cornerstone of big data analytics systems within many businesses and organizations.

As part of the 2022 Big Data 100, CRN has compiled a list of data warehouse system and service companies that solution providers should be aware of. They include established vendors such as Teradata and startups such as Firebolt.

This week CRN is running the Big Data 100 list in slide shows, organized by technology category, with vendors of business analytics software, database systems, data management and integration software, data warehouse systems, big data systems and cloud platforms, and data science and machine learning tools. Another slide show will highlight the startup companies within each category.

Some vendors market big data products that span multiple technology categories. They appear in the slideshow for the technology segment in which they are most prominent.

Actian

Top Executive: CEO Lewis Black

Actian develops Actian Avalanche, a fully managed, hybrid cloud data warehouse service that the company says provides performance and can scale up across data volume, concurrent users and query complexity. The service can be deployed on-premises and across multiple clouds including the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud platforms.

Actian, based in Palo Alto, Calif., also offers a broad portfolio of data management and integration tools including Actian Vector for Hadoop for data lake acceleration, DataConnect enterprise data integration, the Actian X transactional database and Actian Zen for edge data management.

Firebolt

Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Eldad Farkash

Firebolt, which officially launched in December 2020, provides a cloud data warehouse system with which the startup is boldly competing head-to-head with industry giants including Amazon Web Services, Snowflake and Google.

The company emphasizes the high performance of its system as a competitive advantage. And while AWS and Snowflake market their data cloud platforms for a wide range of tasks, Firebolt is specifically targeting developers and data engineers who are building data-intensive applications and interactive analytical systems in the cloud—for both internal and external users—that tap into huge volumes of data.

In June 2021 Firebolt raised an impressive $127 million in Series B funding to fuel its development efforts.

Ocient

Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Chris Gladwin

The Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse transforms and loads massive volumes of data in just seconds, according to the company, and can execute queries on hyperscale datasets up to 50 times faster than other data warehouse systems.

The data warehouse can scale to handle petabytes of data, Ocient says, and delivers low-latency data transformation, streaming and file loading with optimized indexing. The system handles complex analytical functions using industry-standard query and analytics interfaces including SQL, JDBC and ODBC.

Ocient also develops analytics software written for specific use cases such as geospatial and operational IT and for vertical industries including financial services, government and telecommunications. Ocient is based in Chicago.

Teradata

Top Executive: President, CEO Steve McMillan

Teradata, founded in 1979, was a pioneer in the data warehouse space with its DBC/1012 system. Today the company goes to market with its flagship Teradata Vantage multi-cloud data platform that unifies data warehouses, data lakes, data sources and data analytics.

In February, in a test of its technology’s scalability, Teradata said it proved that it can successfully operationalize analytics on a single system of 1,000 nodes with 1,023 active users submitting thousands of concurrent queries using a diverse set of mixed workloads, with no system downtime or outages.

Teradata, based in San Diego, reported revenue of $1.92 billion in 2021.

Yellowbrick Data

Top Executive: Co-Founder, CEO Neil Carson

The Yellowbrick Data Warehouse is based on the company’s MPP (massive parallel processing) analytical database that can handle batch, real-time, interactive and mixed analytical workloads. The company’s data warehouse can be deployed in private or public cloud environments or across edge devices.

Yellowbrick Data, based Mountain View, Calif., raised $75 million in Series C1 funding in November 2021.