10 Hot Big Data Companies You Should Watch In 2022

January 17, 2022, 10:00 AM EST

Here’s a roundup of 10 companies developing big data technologies and big data solutions to keep an eye on in 2022—some well-known, some likely to break out this year and some just starting to appear on industry observers’ radar screens.

Cockroach Labs

Top Executive: Spencer Kimball, Co-Founder, CEO

The wave of companies developing next-generation database software has continued to grow in recent years. More established developers such as Couchbase, MariaDB, MongoDB and SingleStore, along with a growing number of young startups like Yugabyte, are competing to break from the pack and position themselves as the alternative to deeply entrenched database products from Oracle and Microsoft.

Cockroach Labs has attracted a lot of attention—and a lot of funding—with its CockroachDB distributed SQL database that’s designed to handle workloads with huge volumes of transactional data. The database is also the foundation for Cockroach Cloud, the company’s popular Database as a Service that launched in 2019.

Having raised a total of $633 million since its 2015 founding, the startup’s market valuation now stands at $5 billion.

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Rick Whiting

Rick Whiting has been with CRN since 2006 and is currently a feature/special projects editor. Whiting manages a number of CRN’s signature annual editorial projects including Channel Chiefs, Partner Program Guide, Big Data 100, Emerging Vendors, Tech Innovators and Products of the Year. He also covers the Big Data beat for CRN. He can be reached at rwhiting@thechannelcompany.com.