# Top Free Big Data Processing And Distribution Systems

Check out our list of free Big Data Processing And Distribution Systems. Products featured on this list are the ones that offer a free trial version. As with most free versions, there are limitations, typically time or features.

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### [Databricks](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews)

[By Databricks Inc.](https://www.g2.com/sellers/databricks-inc)

[

(1,335)4.6 out of 5
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Product Description

Databricks is a unified data and AI platform that helps organizations build, govern and scale data pipelines, analytics, machine learning, AI applications and agents. More than 20,000 organizations wo

**Users:** Data Engineer, Data Analyst · **Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Financial Services · **Market Segment:** 48% Enterprise, 38% Mid-Market

User SentimentHow are these determined?

Users frequently mention the platform's ability to handle large-scale data processing efficiently, its collaborative notebook environment that enables cross-team collaboration, and its seamless integration with various cloud services and Apache Spark. Reviewers mentioned the platform's complex pricing structure, the steep learning curve for beginners, and the challenges in managing clusters and configurations, particularly for new users.

Year Founded
2013

HQ Location
San Francisco, CA

Company Website
https://databricks.com

Twitter
@databricks

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/3477522/

### [Google Cloud BigQuery](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews)

[By Google](https://www.g2.com/sellers/google)

[

(1,226)4.5 out of 5
](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews#reviews "Read Google Cloud BigQuery Reviews")

Product Description

BigQuery is a fully managed, AI-ready data analytics platform that helps you maximize value from your data and is designed to be multi-engine, multi-format, and multi-cloud. Store 10 GiB of data and

**Users:** Data Engineer, Data Analyst · **Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software · **Market Segment:** 38% Enterprise, 35% Mid-Market

 ![Mateo K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mateo K.")
MK

I like that Google Cloud BigQuery is free if you're not operating on a big scale, which is great because we use it without paying for it. I'd also...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews/google-cloud-bigquery-review-12611959)

 ![Veera Shubhashree P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Veera Shubhashree P.")
VP

I use Google Cloud BigQuery for learning big data concepts and implementing chatbots. I like that all the services and products are in one place,...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews/google-cloud-bigquery-review-12612804)

Year Founded
1998

HQ Location
Mountain View, CA

Company Website
https://cloud.google.com/

Twitter
@google

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/1441/

Ownership
NASDAQ:GOOG

Phone
+1 (650) 253-0000

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### [Snowflake](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews)

[By Snowflake, Inc.](https://www.g2.com/sellers/snowflake-inc)

[

(756)4.5 out of 5
](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews#reviews "Read Snowflake Reviews")

Product Description

Snowflake makes enterprise AI easy, efficient and trusted. Thousands of companies around the globe, including hundreds of the world’s largest, use Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud to share data, build applic

**Users:** Data Engineer, Data Analyst · **Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software · **Market Segment:** 45% Mid-Market, 42% Enterprise

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CH

Its flexibility to grow from a very small free POC to a global multiregion data system with AI, both technologically and in price. This is...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews/snowflake-review-12840793)

 ![Conner R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Conner R.")
CR

Super reliable, with a much more robust integration guide that makes setup and implementation clearer.[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews/snowflake-review-12849271)

Year Founded
2012

HQ Location
San Mateo, CA

Company Website
https://www.snowflake.com

Twitter
@SnowflakeDB

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/snowflake-computing/

Ownership
NYSE:SNOW

### [Qubole](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/reviews)

[By Qubole](https://www.g2.com/sellers/qubole)

[

(259)4.0 out of 5
](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/reviews#reviews "Read Qubole Reviews")

Product Description

Qubole is the open data lake company that provides a simple and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics. No other platform provides the openness and data worklo

**Users:** Software Engineer, Data Scientist · **Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services · **Market Segment:** 51% Enterprise, 44% Mid-Market

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AL

1. Customer service and representatives. They are very patient, friendly and knowledgeable. They always show up on time for the office hours. The...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/reviews/qubole-review-4132011)

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AM

Self-serve nature that allows engineers to take over control of their workload. Reduces administrative bottleneck. Flexibility of changing cluster...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/reviews/qubole-review-4132044)

Year Founded
2011

HQ Location
Santa Clara, CA

Company Website
https://www.qubole.com

Twitter
@qubole

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/2531735/

### [IBM watsonx.data](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watsonx-data/reviews)

[By IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm)

[

(164)4.4 out of 5
](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watsonx-data/reviews#reviews "Read IBM watsonx.data Reviews")

Product Description

IBM® watsonx.data® helps you access, integrate and understand all your data —structured and unstructured—across any environment. It optimizes workloads for price and performance while enforcing consis

**Users:** Software Engineer, CEO · **Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services · **Market Segment:** 34% Small-Business, 32% Enterprise

 ![Pratik C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pratik C.")
PC

I use IBM watsonx.data as a central data platform, which is great for storing, accessing, and analyzing data, especially in data engineering and...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watsonx-data/reviews/ibm-watsonx-data-review-12652438)

 ![Kshitij P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kshitij P.")
KP

I use IBM watsonx.data primarily because of its ability to provide a unified access layer to data across multiple sources without the need for...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watsonx-data/reviews/ibm-watsonx-data-review-12656396)

Year Founded
1911

HQ Location
Armonk, New York, United States

Company Website
https://www.ibm.com

Twitter
@IBMSecurity

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/1009/

Ownership
SWX:IBM

Phone
1-866-277-7488

### [OpenText Vertica](https://www.g2.com/products/opentext-vertica/reviews)

[By OpenText](https://www.g2.com/sellers/opentext)

[

(216)4.3 out of 5
](https://www.g2.com/products/opentext-vertica/reviews#reviews "Read OpenText Vertica Reviews")

Product Description

Vertica is the unified analytics platform, based on a massively scalable architecture with a broad set of analytical functions spanning event and time series, pattern matching, geospatial, and built-i

**Users:** Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineer · **Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services · **Market Segment:** 44% Enterprise, 39% Mid-Market

 ![Suru S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Suru S.")
SS

Can perform any type of analytics, in our use-case we use Time Series, Pattern Matching by ingesting data gathering from different data sources...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/opentext-vertica/reviews/opentext-vertica-review-7679475)

 ![Kuldeep S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kuldeep S.")
KS

OpenText Veryica excels in understanding context, generating coherent responses, and aiding various natural language processing tasks. Its...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/opentext-vertica/reviews/opentext-vertica-review-8881830)

Year Founded
1991

HQ Location
Waterloo, ON

Company Website
https://www.opentext.com/

Twitter
@OpenText

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/2709/

Ownership
NASDAQ:OTEX

Phone
 +1-519-888-7111

### [Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/teradata-autonomous-knowledge-platform/reviews)

[By Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform](https://www.g2.com/sellers/teradata-autonomous-knowledge-platform)

[

(375)4.3 out of 5
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Product Description

Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents

**Users:** Data Engineer, Software Engineer · **Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Financial Services · **Market Segment:** 69% Enterprise, 22% Mid-Market

User SentimentHow are these determined?

Reviewers frequently mention its ability to efficiently process large datasets, its strong performance, and its support for integration with different tools, making data management and workflows more convenient. Users reported that the platform can feel complex for beginners, the user interface is outdated, and it becomes expensive when data volume and computer usage grow.

Year Founded
1979

HQ Location
San Diego, CA

Company Website
https://www.teradata.com

Twitter
@Teradata

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/1466/

Ownership
NYSE:TDC

Phone
+1 (317) 814-6465

### [Starburst](https://www.g2.com/products/starburst/reviews)

[By Starburst](https://www.g2.com/sellers/starburst)

[

(92)4.4 out of 5
](https://www.g2.com/products/starburst/reviews#reviews "Read Starburst Reviews")

Product Description

Starburst is the data platform for analytics, applications, and AI, unifying data across clouds and on-premises to accelerate AI innovation. Organizations—from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises in 6

**Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Financial Services · **Market Segment:** 48% Enterprise, 32% Small-Business

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AB

I use Starburst primarily for querying data from Hive, and I really appreciate its ability to speed up queries significantly. This acceleration...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/starburst/reviews/starburst-review-10597115)

PP

Starburst’s query engine is very powerful. This allows me to do such complex queries on mutiply data sources without lifting a finger. This is a...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/starburst/reviews/starburst-review-10937963)

Year Founded
2017

HQ Location
Boston, MA

Company Website
https://www.starburst.io/

Twitter
@starburstdata

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/starburstdata/

### [Posit Team](https://www.g2.com/products/posit-team/reviews)

[By Posit](https://www.g2.com/sellers/posit)

[

(571)4.5 out of 5
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Product Description

Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation building open-source software and an enterprise data science platform. We created the RStudio IDE, Shiny, Positron, and Quarto — tools used by millions of data sc

**Users:** Research Assistant, Graduate Research Assistant · **Industries:** Higher Education, Information Technology and Services · **Market Segment:** 49% Enterprise, 27% Mid-Market

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UH

Object-oriented platform. You can manipulate information like an object and put them into analysis. If you have specific "formula" in mind you can...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/posit-team/reviews/posit-team-review-4427692)

 ![Maddy E.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Maddy E.")
ME

RStudio is extremely useful and free software for interpreting and analysing datasets of any size. It's open source, and with the variety of...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/posit-team/reviews/posit-team-review-4484652)

Year Founded
2009

HQ Location
Boston, US

Company Website
https://posit.co

Twitter
@posit\_pbc

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/1978648/

### [Kyvos Semantic Layer](https://www.g2.com/products/kyvos-semantic-layer/reviews)

[By Kyvos Insights](https://www.g2.com/sellers/kyvos-insights)

[

(284)4.8 out of 5
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Product Description

Kyvos is a semantic layer for AI and BI. It gives organizations a single, consistent, business-friendly view of their entire data estate. By standardizing how data is defined and understood, Kyvos

**Users:** Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer · **Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Computer Software · **Market Segment:** 57% Mid-Market, 38% Enterprise

User SentimentHow are these determined?

Users like that Kyvos provides consistent business definitions and metrics across all BI tools, speeds up analytics for large-scale data environments, and enables easy exploration of multiple business metrics, dimensions, and KPIs. Reviewers noted that there can be a learning curve when working with more complex models, initial setup requires coordination across teams, and some advanced features take time to understand.

Year Founded
2014

HQ Location
Los Gatos, CA

Company Website
https://www.kyvosinsights.com

Twitter
@KyvosInsights

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/kyvos-insights-inc-/

### [Confluent](https://www.g2.com/products/confluent/reviews)

[By IBM](https://www.g2.com/sellers/ibm)

[

(114)4.4 out of 5
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Product Description

Cloud-native service for data in motion built by the original creators of Apache Kafka® Today’s consumers have the world at their fingertips and hold an unforgiving expectation for end-to-end real-ti

**Users:** Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer · **Industries:** Computer Software, Information Technology and Services · **Market Segment:** 36% Enterprise, 34% Small-Business

 ![Uk S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Uk S.")
US

Scalability , Reliability , Community and Support , Event-Driven Architecture , easy to use , ease integration with 3rd party source , Monitoring...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/confluent/reviews/confluent-review-8834888)

 ![Daan C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Daan C.")
DC

Confluent provides a fully managed Kafka Service, allowing us as developers to focus on building applications rather than managing the underlying...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/confluent/reviews/confluent-review-8852451)

Year Founded
1911

HQ Location
Armonk, New York, United States

Company Website
https://www.ibm.com

Twitter
@IBMSecurity

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/1009/

Ownership
SWX:IBM

Phone
1-866-277-7488

### [Dremio](https://www.g2.com/products/dremio/reviews)

[By Dremio](https://www.g2.com/sellers/dremio)

[

(70)4.6 out of 5
](https://www.g2.com/products/dremio/reviews#reviews "Read Dremio Reviews")

Product Description

Dremio is the pioneer of The Agentic Lakehouse—the only data platform built for agents, managed by agents. Organizations need to transform ideas into actions at unprecedented speed—Dremio delivers thi

**Industries:** Financial Services, Information Technology and Services · **Market Segment:** 50% Enterprise, 40% Mid-Market

 ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services")
EF

Fast and user-friendly query engine on top of open standard parquet files without the hassle of data loading process to a proprietary vendor...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/dremio/reviews/dremio-review-4483856)

 ![Luca P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Luca P.")
LP

I love the platform’s ability to connect to a wide array of data sources, including relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL), NoSQL...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/dremio/reviews/dremio-review-11368532)

Year Founded
2015

HQ Location
Santa Clara, California

Company Website
https://www.dremio.com/

Twitter
@dremio

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/dremio/

### [TIMi](https://www.g2.com/products/timi/reviews)

[By TIMi SPRL](https://www.g2.com/sellers/timi-sprl)

[

(53)4.8 out of 5
](https://www.g2.com/products/timi/reviews#reviews "Read TIMi Reviews")

Product Description

TIMi is the most efficient Data Science and Data Processing Platform. Since 2007, we have been creating and improving the most powerful framework to push the barriers of analytics, predictive analyt

**Industries:** Information Technology and Services, Banking · **Market Segment:** 40% Small-Business, 32% Enterprise

AG

In my 22 years in the profession and ten working with TIMi, I could write a book about all the true value TIMi has brought to me & Volvo Cars...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/timi/reviews/timi-review-5122407)

VN

I liked it for performing ETL processes of e[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/timi/reviews/timi-review-7034122)

Year Founded
2007

HQ Location
Brussels

Company Website
https://timi.eu

Twitter
@TIMiSuite

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/timisuite/

### [Snowplow](https://www.g2.com/products/snowplow/reviews)

[By Snowplow](https://www.g2.com/sellers/snowplow)

[

(31)4.6 out of 5
](https://www.g2.com/products/snowplow/reviews#reviews "Read Snowplow Reviews")

Product Description

Snowplow is the leader in next-generation customer data infrastructure (CDI), enabling every data-driven organization to own and unlock the true value of its customer behavioral data to fuel AI, advan

**Industries:** Computer Software · **Market Segment:** 52% Mid-Market, 35% Small-Business

PG

I've found snowplow analytics after one year trying to work on third part solutions for my in-house analytics application, and I am finally owner...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/snowplow/reviews/snowplow-review-2512640)

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CB

having clickstream data without paying for GA360[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/snowplow/reviews/snowplow-review-2976161)

Year Founded
2012

HQ Location
London, United Kingdom

Company Website
https://snowplow.io/

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/snowplow/

### [AWS Lake Formation](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lake-formation/reviews)

[By Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd)

[

(37)4.4 out of 5
](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lake-formation/reviews#reviews "Read AWS Lake Formation Reviews")

Product Description

AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service to build, manage, secure, and share data in data lakes in days. You can centralize security and governance, and enable data sharing across the organizatio

**Industries:** Information Technology and Services · **Market Segment:** 49% Small-Business, 35% Enterprise

 ![Yuvraj S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Yuvraj S.")
YS

First it's a secure which complete the main requirements in today's time, also it has addition functionality which ease the effort of developers to...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lake-formation/reviews/aws-lake-formation-review-5409033)

 ![Vijay K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vijay K.")
VK

it is one of the comprehensive data lake and data catalogue and ingesting platform, it does not only consolidate and provide a unique view across...[Read review](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lake-formation/reviews/aws-lake-formation-review-6731801)

Year Founded
2006

HQ Location
Seattle, WA

Company Website
https://aws.amazon.com/?nc2=h\_lg

Twitter
@awscloud

LinkedIn® Page
https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon-web-services/

Ownership
NASDAQ: AMZN

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