Forrester Wave Cloud Data Warehouse, Q4 2018
Evaluated Vendors And Inclusion Criteria Forrester included 14 vendors in the assessment: Alibaba, AWS, Exasol, Google, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, MarkLogic, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Oracle, Pivotal, Snowflake, and Teradata. Each of these vendors has ( see Figure 1 ): A comprehensive CDW offering. Key components of the CDW include the provisioning, storing, processing, transforming, and accessing of data. The CDW should provide features to secure data, enable elastic scale, provide high availability and disaster recovery options, support loading and unloading of data, and provide various data access tools. A standalone data warehouse service running in the public cloud. Vendors included in this evaluation provide a CDW service that organizations can implement or use independent of analytics, data science, and visualization tools. The service should not be technologically tied to or bundled with any particular application or solution. Data warehouse use cases. The CDW service shoul...