Datanami Reveals Winners of 2023 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 26, 2024 — Datanami (soon to be BigDATAwire), the leading publication covering big data, analytics, and AI news, today announced the winners of its eighth annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. The awards recognize the companies and products that made a difference in the big data community in 2023 and provide insight into the current state of the industry.

Datanami has designated two categories of awards: (1) Readers’ Choice, where winners have been elected by a global community of readers, and (2) Editors’ Choice, where winners have been selected by Datanami editors. The process started with an open nomination process, with voting taking place for 30 days.

“It’s my great honor today to announce the winners of the 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards,” said Datanami Managing Editor Alex Woodie said. “The world of big data, advanced analytics, and AI moves incredibly fast, and these solution providers have demonstrated the skill, determination, and acumen necessary to succeed in these rapidly evolving markets.”

These awards, now in their eighth year, are gaining recognition as being among the most prestigious recognition given by the big data and AI community to its own each year, and are the only awards that provide open voting to a worldwide audience of end users.

THE 2023 BIGDATAWIRE READERS’ AND EDITORS’ CHOICE AWARD WINNERS ARE:

Best AI Product: Machine Learning and Data Science Platform

• Readers’ Choice: Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
• Editors’ Choice: DataRobot AI Platform

Best AI Product: GenAI/LLM

• Readers’ Choice: OpenAI ChatGPT
• Editors’ Choice: Databricks MosaicML

Best Big Data Product: Stream Processing

• Readers’ Choice: Databricks Spark Streaming
• Editors’ Choice: Confluent Cloud

Best Big Data Product: Business Intelligence and Data Visualization

• Readers’ Choice: Tableau Creator
• Editors’ Choice: Google Looker

Best Big Data Product: Transactional and Operational Database

• Readers’ Choice: MongoDB Atlas
• Editors’ Choice: Redis Enterprise Cloud

Best Big Data Product: Analytics Database, Data Lake, and Lakehouse

• Readers’ Choice: Snowflake Data Cloud
• Editors’ Choice: Apache Druid

Best Big Data Product: Data Fabric/Data Mesh

• Readers’ Choice: SnapLogic
• Editors’ Choice: Informatica Intelligent Data Fabric

Best Big Data Product: Cloud Data Storage

• Readers’ Choice: MinIO
• Editors’ Choice: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Best Big Data Product: DataOps

• Readers’ Choice: Acceldata Data Observability Cloud
• Editors’ Choice: Alation Data Intelligence Platform

Top 3 Big Data and AI Open Source Projects

Readers’ Choice:

1. Gitlab
2. Nvidia RAPIDS
3. Apache Druid

Editors’ Choice:

1. Deci YOLO-NAS
2. Databricks Delta Lake 3.0
3. Apache Arrow

Top 3 Big Data and AI Startups

Readers’ Choice:

1. Starburst
2. Deci
3. Airbyte

Editors’ Choice:

1. Firebolt
2. Portal26
3. Nexdata

Top 3 Big Data and AI Vendors to Watch

Readers’ Choice:

1. Databricks
2. Neo4j
3. SnapLogic

Editors’ Choice:

1. dbt Labs
2. Titanium Intelligent Solutions
3. BigID

Top Big Data and AI Achievement

• Readers’ Choice: Databricks and the Texas Rangers — The Texas Rangers adopted the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to help it analyze the massive streams of unstructured data coming out of motion-capture systems, enabling the professional baseball club to track the movement of players’ joints frame-by-frame as well as analyzing wind, temperature, and humidity data in real time.
• Editors’ Choice: DDN and Helmholtz Munich — The German biomedical research center employed DDN’s EXAScaler parallel filesystem to consolidate and control massive data sets used for building deep learning models, helping to accelerate the flow of data for the purpose of discovering new therapies and preventions for conditions like diabetes, obesity, allergies, and chronic lung diseases.

More information on these awards can be found at the BigDATAwire website at https://www.datanami.com/2023-readers-editors-choice-awards.

About BigDATAwire

Datanami (soon to be BigDATAwire) is a news portal and weekly newsletter dedicated to providing insight, analysis, and up-to-the-minute information about big data, data science, advanced analytics, and AI news and trends. Now in its twelfth year, Datanami follows the application of data and the array of technologies available to manage its growth and utility, spanning both software and hardware tools as well as the strategies being employed to drive new solutions.

About TCI Media

TCI Media (formerly Tabor Communications Inc.) is the home of the Wire Publications, which broadly cover the convergence of Advanced Scale Computing technologies — both today and in the future. Its four publications, HPCwire, BigDATAwire (Datanami), AIwire (formerly EnterpriseAI), and QCwire, together unify the IT communities that TCI Media serves, providing news, analysis, and information to educate and engage users and decision-makers seeking high performance and advanced scale computing solutions across HPC, Big Data, AI, and Quantum Computing. More information can be found at www.tci-media.com.

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