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(1,201)4.5 out of 5
1st Easiest To Use in Columnar Databases software
View top Consulting Services for Google Cloud BigQuery
Entry Level Price:Free
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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
- 37% Enterprise
- 36% Mid-Market
Google Cloud BigQuery features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
9.1
Data Model
Average: 8.7
8.8
Data Types
Average: 8.5
8.7
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
8.5
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
UM
bigquery is just amazing, it handles all the datasets and worflow so easilly, i work with millions of rows almost every day and it never makes me... Read review
AV
I really like how fast and effortless it feels to work with large datasets. BigQuery lets me run complex queries in seconds without worrying about... Read review
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@google31,508,752 Twitter followers
(397)4.3 out of 5
3rd Easiest To Use in Columnar Databases software
View top Consulting Services for Amazon Redshift
Entry Level Price:$1.22 - $3.26 Per hour
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Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your
Users
- Data Engineer
- Senior Data Engineer
Industries
- Information Technology and Services
- Computer Software
Market Segment
- 40% Enterprise
- 38% Mid-Market
Amazon Redshift features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
8.4
Data Model
Average: 8.7
8.4
Data Types
Average: 8.5
8.7
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
8.2
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
IH
Pay as per usage
Ese of use
Nice UI
has many features associated with AWS Read review
AT
Speed, price, and the ease of use. The serverless option make it so much faster and easier to manage the system itself. Read review
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@awscloud2,217,637 Twitter followers
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NASDAQ: AMZN
(114)4.2 out of 5
5th Easiest To Use in Columnar Databases software
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A scalable, distributed database that supports structured data storage for large tables. Use HBase when you need random, realtime read/write access to Big Data.
Users
- Software Engineer
- Big Data Engineer
Industries
- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
Market Segment
- 52% Enterprise
- 27% Mid-Market
Hbase features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
8.1
Data Model
Average: 8.7
7.2
Data Types
Average: 8.5
8.0
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
7.0
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
GN
1. Free and open source
2. Comes as part of all Hadoop distribution
3. Good for fast inserts and scan use cases
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UN
With HBase, you get what you asked for. HBase is great because it's an open-source, well-known Apache project. As a result, the community and... Read review
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@TheASF65,765 Twitter followers
(666)4.6 out of 5
Optimized for quick response
2nd Easiest To Use in Columnar Databases software
View top Consulting Services for Snowflake
Entry Level Price:$2 Compute/Hour
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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% Enterprise
- 42% Mid-Market
Snowflake features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
9.2
Data Model
Average: 8.7
9.2
Data Types
Average: 8.5
9.0
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
9.2
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
BJ
Snowflake’s ability to handle large volumes of structured and semi-structured data seamlessly is its biggest strength. The separation of compute... Read review
CR
Depending on the size of your warehouse, we can handle a large amount of data without performance issues. This would be very difficult with an... Read review
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San Mateo, CATwitter
@SnowflakeDB159 Twitter followers
Entry Level Price:Free
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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
OpenText Vertica features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
8.4
Data Model
Average: 8.7
8.0
Data Types
Average: 8.5
8.3
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
8.5
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
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
KS
OpenText Veryica excels in understanding context, generating coherent responses, and aiding various natural language processing tasks. Its... Read review
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@OpenText21,629 Twitter followers
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NASDAQ:OTEX
Entry Level Price:Free
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We power the time-aware data-driven decisions that enable fast-moving organizations to realize the full potential of their AI investments and outpace competitors. Our technology delivers transforma
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Industries
- Financial Services
- Banking
Market Segment
- 57% Enterprise
- 25% Small-Business
KX features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
8.8
Data Model
Average: 8.7
9.5
Data Types
Average: 8.5
9.0
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
9.1
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
KL
Its speed, and the expressiveness of the language, q. The speed of development in the team is difficult to replicate in other languages. Its also a... Read review
NP
Insane performance and elegant minimalist syntax. Ajing billions of rows in a few seconds is perfect for time series data analysis. Read review
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@kxsystems4,210 Twitter followers
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Apache Druid is an open source real-time analytics database. Druid combines ideas from OLAP/analytic databases, timeseries databases, and search systems to create a complete real-time analytics soluti
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Industries
- Computer Software
Market Segment
- 52% Enterprise
- 29% Mid-Market
Druid features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
8.8
Data Model
Average: 8.7
7.8
Data Types
Average: 8.5
7.7
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
8.9
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
AM
1) Pre-rolled up data into dimension and metrics
2) Lighting fast data/ query result retrieval Read review
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@druid4 Twitter followers
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MariaDB frees companies from the costs, constraints and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing application
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- Software Engineer
- Senior Software Engineer
Industries
- Information Technology and Services
- Computer Software
Market Segment
- 43% Small-Business
- 33% Mid-Market
MariaDB features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
8.8
Data Model
Average: 8.7
8.9
Data Types
Average: 8.5
8.1
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
9.0
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
NI
MariaDB is a powerful database server with open source features that is improved every day by MySQL developers. It has many features and its speed... Read review
SS
The best thing I like about MariaDB is that it is super-compatible with MySQL, by which new users won't find it difficult to shift and start the... Read review
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@mariadb454,732 Twitter followers
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NYSE: MRDB
Entry Level Price:Free
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The real-time database for analytics, search, and AI. Store any type of data and combine the simplicity of SQL with the scalability of NoSQL. CrateDB is an open source, multi-model, distributed and co
Users
- Data Engineer
- Software Engineer
Industries
- Computer Software
- Information Technology and Services
Market Segment
- 55% Small-Business
- 31% Mid-Market
CrateDB features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
9.0
Data Model
Average: 8.7
9.2
Data Types
Average: 8.5
9.3
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
10.0
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
LO
This is one of my favorite software because of its ease of use very ease to create a database, It can handle a massive amount of data, and it... Read review
AA
I value the pricing over competitors like CockroachDB, and MongoDB Atlas for similar amounts of data stored and retrieved. Read review
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Redwood City, CATwitter
@cratedb4,210 Twitter followers
Entry Level Price:Free
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StarTree Cloud is a fully-managed user-facing real-time analytics Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) designed for OLAP at massive speed and scale. Based on Apache Pinot™, StarTree Cloud provides enterprise
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Industries
- Computer Software
- Financial Services
Market Segment
- 38% Small-Business
- 31% Enterprise
StarTree features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
8.3
Data Model
Average: 8.7
8.1
Data Types
Average: 8.5
8.8
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
8.7
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
NG
Fully managed Database as a service and also self service provision Read review
EC
"Bring Your Own Cloud" is great - they manage but we control. It worked just as described. They're very responsive for onboarding/support issues... Read review
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Mountain View, CaliforniaTwitter
@startreedata2,251 Twitter followers
Entry Level Price:Free
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Tembo is a multi-workload Postgres managed service that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads. With robust SaaS and self hosted de
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Industries
- Computer Software
Market Segment
- 85% Small-Business
- 15% Mid-Market
Tembo features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
8.9
Data Model
Average: 8.7
9.4
Data Types
Average: 8.5
10.0
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
8.9
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
UC
It resolves our specific needs such as the cloud and stack related deployments Read review
SN
The best thing I like about Tembo is that they have extensive postgres extension library Read review
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@tembo_io1 Twitter followers
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Tinybird is a fully managed ClickHouse® service designed for software developers and AI-native product teams by enabling them to create large-scale real-time analytics projects with minimal effort. Ti
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Industries
- Computer Software
Market Segment
- 50% Mid-Market
- 36% Small-Business
Tinybird features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
0.0
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10.0
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
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PG
Tinybird simplifies development, excelling in real-time analytics with unmatched speed and cost effectiveness. Easy data ingestion, quick querying,... Read review
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New York, US
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Tiger Data, from the creators of TimescaleDB, is the #1 Postgres time-series database for developers, devices and agents. Keep sensor, on-chain, and customer data fresh while retaining years of histor
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Industries
- Computer Software
- Financial Services
Market Segment
- 79% Small-Business
- 18% Mid-Market
Tiger Data features and usability ratings that predict user satisfaction
7.2
Data Model
Average: 8.7
7.8
Data Types
Average: 8.5
9.3
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
Average: 8.5
7.8
Integrated Cache
Average: 8.5
KF
We loved the ease of installation and the familiarity of Timescale with PostgreSQL. It was easy to get started, and it has been easy to maintain... Read review
KC
Timescale has predictable cost anchored in familiar reality; it is driven by storage volume and system load. You don't have that familiar, awful... Read review
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HQ Location
New York, New YorkTwitter
@TigerDatabase765 Twitter followers
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