2021 Forrester Wave Cloud Data Warehouse

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Published October 2021

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Today, cloud data warehouse (CDW) solutions are changing the way we deliver modern analytics. They can provision any size data warehouse in minutes, autotune queries, scale resources such as compute and storage based on demand, and automatically upgrade to the latest version.

In our 26-criterion evaluation of cloud data warehouse providers, Google identified the 13 most significant ones — Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Cloudera, Exasol, Google, IBM, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Snowflake, Teradata, and Yellowbrick — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.

Google are honoured to have been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ Cloud Data Warehouse, Q1 2021 report. Forrester gave BigQuery a 5 out of 5 score across 19 different criteria. Download a copy of this report to explore BigQuery.