Cloudera Named Leader in Forrester Wave Data Lakehouses, Q3 2026
Cloudera said it was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave42: Data Lakehouses, Q3 2026. The evaluation and its scoring criteria focus on offerings, strategy, and customer feedback, making the designation a data point for organizations reviewing data lakehouse options.
The Forrester Wave evaluation compared Cloudera with other data lakehouse providers using factors that included current offering, strategy, and customer feedback. Forrester also assessed vision and roadmap criteria, with Cloudera receiving the highest possible score in that category.
Cloudera said its Open Data Lakehouse combines capabilities described in the release, including zero-copy multi-engine access over governed data, real-time streaming, federated SQL, semantic and vector search, agentic AI workflows, autoscaling, and enterprise observability. The release also described the platform as supporting governed data access with lineage and real-time access, along with enterprise-grade security.
The companies described plans for how Cloudera42s platform fits data lakehouse workflows that include agentic AI workflows and real-time analytics, with operational control across large, distributed, and highly regulated data environments. Leo Brunnick, Chief Product Officer at Cloudera, said, “As organizations accelerate their AI strategies, the quality, governance, and accessibility of their data have become the defining factors for success,” and added, “We believe being named a Leader in The Forrester Wave42: Data Lakehouses validates our vision of delivering an open, hybrid lakehouse that enables customers to bring AI to their data, wherever it resides. By combining enterprise-grade governance with the flexibility to deploy across cloud, on-premises, and sovereign environments, we're helping customers build trusted AI they can scale with confidence.”
Forrester also stated it does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications, and that the report information and opinions were subject to change.
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