On July 31, Forrester, an authoritative international consulting organization, recently released its latest cloud data warehousing research report "The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Data Warehouses, Q2 2023", and with its excellent performance in product performance and market scale, Aliyun entered the top performers quadrant for the second consecutive time, and was the only domestic technology company to enter the quadrant. Aliyun is the only technology company in China to enter the quadrant, along with foreign technology companies such as AWS, Microsoft and SAP.
Data warehouse is the core tool for enterprises to store and manage massive amounts of data, and its concept was born in the 1990s. In the past decade, cloud data warehouse has been widely recognized by enterprises in various industries for its excellent scalability, stability, and ease of use, and has gradually replaced local data warehouse. As the most authoritative research report in the field of cloud warehouse, this Forrester Wave report evaluates 15 head cloud warehouse vendors in three dimensions: product, strategy, and market performance, with a total of 22 criteria. Among them, Aliyun achieved the highest score in the performance and market performance dimensions.
The report shows that AliCloud's cloud number warehouse products are rich, covering MaxCompute, AnalyticDB, Hologres, and E-MapReduce to support a variety of large-scale data warehousing customer cases, can support a variety of large-scale data warehousing customers, and have strong performance in data lake integration, machine learning platform optimization, and product performance and scale.
MaxCompute, AnalyticDB, and Hologres are Aliyun's self-developed big data compute engine and real-time data warehouse. AliCloud began developing MaxCompute, a cloud-native big data computing service, 14 years ago, which can support parallel computing on more than 100,000 servers and has topped the international TPCx-BB list for six consecutive years;
AnalyticDB, an analytical database, has been validated by large-scale business and has set a new world record in the TPC-DS authoritative benchmark test; Hologres, a real-time number warehouse, scored more than 27,860,000 points in the TPC-H test in 2022, breaking the previous performance world record. Previously, MaxCompute and AnalyticDB have both won the first prize for scientific and technological progress in Zhejiang Province.
At the same time, AliCloud continues to embrace the industry's open source digital warehouse program, AliCloud open source big data platform E-MapReduce is compatible with Hadoop and Spark and other open source engines, and provided in the form of a cloud product to provide services to customers, is the world's first TPC-certified public cloud products.
Currently, AliCloud Digital Warehouse products have been applied in finance, Internet, biomedicine, energy, manufacturing, transportation and other fields, including China Post, China Mobile, Shanghai Stock Exchange, China Southern Fund, China Southern Airlines and other enterprises are using AliCloud Digital Warehouse products.