Best Big Data Platforms

Compare the Top Big Data Platforms as of December 2025

What are Big Data Platforms?

Big data platforms are systems that provide the infrastructure and tools needed to store, manage, process, and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data. These platforms typically offer scalable storage solutions, high-performance computing capabilities, and advanced analytics tools to help organizations extract insights from massive datasets. Big data platforms often support technologies such as distributed computing, machine learning, and real-time data processing, allowing businesses to leverage their data for decision-making, predictive analytics, and process optimization. By using these platforms, organizations can handle complex datasets efficiently, uncover hidden patterns, and drive data-driven innovation. Compare and read user reviews of the best Big Data platforms currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Google Cloud Platform
    Google Cloud Platform excels in managing and analyzing big data through tools like BigQuery, a serverless data warehouse for fast querying and analysis. GCP also offers services such as Dataflow, Dataproc, and Pub/Sub, which allow businesses to efficiently process and analyze large datasets. With the added benefit of $300 in free credits for new customers to run, test, and deploy workloads, organizations can start exploring big data solutions without the financial commitment, accelerating their data-driven insights and innovations. The platform’s highly scalable architecture enables companies to process terabytes to petabytes of data quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional data solutions. GCP's big data solutions are designed to integrate well with machine learning tools, creating a comprehensive environment for data scientists and analysts to gain valuable insights.
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    Microsoft Azure
    Microsoft's Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows for rapid and secure application development, testing and management. Azure. Invent with purpose. Turn ideas into solutions with more than 100 services to build, deploy, and manage applications—in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge—using the tools and frameworks of your choice. Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want, and deploy where you want to. On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge—we’ll meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with services designed for hybrid cloud. Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups. The cloud you can trust, with the numbers to prove it.
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    Instaclustr

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    Instaclustr

    Instaclustr is the Open Source-as-a-Service company, delivering reliability at scale. We operate an automated, proven, and trusted managed environment, providing database, analytics, search, and messaging. We enable companies to focus internal development and operational resources on building cutting edge customer-facing applications. Instaclustr works with cloud providers including AWS, Heroku, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform. The company has SOC 2 certification and provides 24/7 customer support.
    Starting Price: $20 per node per month
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    Satori

    Satori

    Satori

    Satori is a Data Security Platform (DSP) that enables self-service data and analytics. Unlike the traditional manual data access process, with Satori, users have a personal data portal where they can see all available datasets and gain immediate access to them. Satori’s DSP dynamically applies the appropriate security and access policies, and the users get secure data access in seconds instead of weeks. Satori’s comprehensive DSP manages access, permissions, security, and compliance policies - all from a single console. Satori continuously discovers sensitive data across data stores and dynamically tracks data usage while applying relevant security policies. Satori enables data teams to scale effective data usage across the organization while meeting all data security and compliance requirements.
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    PHEMI Health DataLab
    The PHEMI Trustworthy Health DataLab is a unique, cloud-based, integrated big data management system that allows healthcare organizations to enhance innovation and generate value from healthcare data by simplifying the ingestion and de-identification of data with NSA/military-grade governance, privacy, and security built-in. Conventional products simply lock down data, PHEMI goes further, solving privacy and security challenges and addressing the urgent need to secure, govern, curate, and control access to privacy-sensitive personal healthcare information (PHI). This improves data sharing and collaboration inside and outside of an enterprise—without compromising the privacy of sensitive information or increasing administrative burden. PHEMI Trustworthy Health DataLab can scale to any size of organization, is easy to deploy and manage, connects to hundreds of data sources, and integrates with popular data science and business analysis tools.
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    Oracle Big Data Service
    Oracle Big Data Service makes it easy for customers to deploy Hadoop clusters of all sizes, with VM shapes ranging from 1 OCPU to a dedicated bare metal environment. Customers choose between high-performance NVmE storage or cost-effective block storage, and can grow or shrink their clusters. Quickly create Hadoop-based data lakes to extend or complement customer data warehouses, and ensure that all data is both accessible and managed cost-effectively. Query, visualize and transform data so data scientists can build machine learning models using the included notebook with its R, Python and SQL support. Move customer-managed Hadoop clusters to a fully-managed cloud-based service, reducing management costs and improving resource utilization.
    Starting Price: $0.1344 per hour
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    Privacera

    Privacera

    Privacera

    At the intersection of data governance, privacy, and security, Privacera’s unified data access governance platform maximizes the value of data by providing secure data access control and governance across hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. The hybrid platform centralizes access and natively enforces policies across multiple cloud services—AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake, Starburst and more—to democratize trusted data enterprise-wide without compromising compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, or HIPAA. Trusted by Fortune 500 customers across finance, insurance, retail, healthcare, media, public and the federal sector, Privacera is the industry’s leading data access governance platform that delivers unmatched scalability, elasticity, and performance. Headquartered in Fremont, California, Privacera was founded in 2016 to manage cloud data privacy and security by the creators of Apache Ranger™ and Apache Atlas™.
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    EntelliFusion
    Teksouth’s EntelliFusion is a fully managed, end-to-end solution. Rather than piecing together several different platforms for data prep, data warehousing and governance, then deploying a great deal of IT resources to figure out how to make it all work; EntelliFusion's architecture provides a one-stop shop for outfitting an organizations data infrastructure. With EntelliFusion, data silos become centralized in a single platform for cross functional KPI's, creating holistic and powerful insights. EntelliFusion’s “military-born” technology has proven successful against the strenuous demands of the USA’s top echelon of military operations. In this capacity, it was massively scaled across the DOD for over twenty years. EntelliFusion is built on the latest Microsoft technologies and frameworks which allows it to be continually enhanced and innovated. It is data agnostic, infinitely scalable, and guarantees accuracy and performance to promote end-user tool adoption.
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