Storage News
The Coolest Big Data System And Platform Vendors Of The 2019 Big Data 100
Rick Whiting
Part 2 of CRN's 2019 Big Data 100 looks at the companies you need to know that provide big data systems and platforms.
Microsoft
Top Executive: CEO Satya Nadella
Software giant Microsoft offers a broad range of software products that cut across all the categories in our big data roundup. The product portfolio includes the flagship SQL Server database and popular Power BI business analytics software.
Microsoft has been aggressively expanding its big data offerings for its Azure cloud platform, including Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Stream Analytics, along with the HDInsight Hadoop and Spark service.
Oracle
Top Executive: CEOs Safra Catz and Mark Hurd
Oracle's big data offerings have long expanded beyond its flagship Oracle Database software to include products that span all big data technology categories.
Oracle's portfolio today includes the Big Data Discovery visual analysis tool, Oracle Data Mining and other business analytics software; multiple databases including MySQL, NoSQL and TimesTen; the Oracle Data Warehouse; data integration and transformation tools such as Oracle Data Integrator; and complete systems including the Oracle Big Data Appliance and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
As with most of its software portfolio Oracle has been aggressively moving its big data offerings to the cloud in recent years.
Pivotal Software
Top Executive: CEO Rob Mee
While Pivotal's main focus is helping customers build and deploy applications, the company operates a division that focuses on big data products including the Pivotal Greenplum massively parallel processing data platform for advanced analytics and Apache MASlib system for in-database analytics.
