10 Hot Big Data Companies You Should Watch In 2022 Posted on : Jan 19 - 2022

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.

The “global datasphere”—the total amount of data created and replicated in a given year—reached 64.2 zettabytes in 2020 and will continue to grow at a 23 percent compound annual growth rate through 2025, according to market research firm IDC.

Businesses and organizations are increasingly challenged to manage and govern all that data and find ways to collect and prepare it for initiatives in big data analytics, machine learning and digital transformation.

To address those challenges businesses today can turn to a wide range of big data technologies and big data solutions—from early stage startups to well-established companies.

Here’s a look at 10 big data companies that we will be keeping our eyes on through 2022.

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. View More