Shirish Netke, president of Amberoon and M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder and CEO of Sand Hill Group have published a very useful list of 50 "Swift and Strong" companies in Big Data. As the quote says

"The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet".

They chose companies based on their story, ecosystem, insight, and influence, and excluded industry behemoths like Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle, EMC, because they run multi-faceted businesses.

Here are the 50 companies in alphabetical order. See their post Sand Hill 50 "Swift and Strong" in Big Data for detailed descriptions.

1. Actian
   
2. Actifio
   
3. Aerospike
   
4. Alpine Data Labs
   
5. Alteryx
   
6. Appfluent
   
7. Attivio
8. Ayasdi
9. C3global
10. ClearStory
11. Cloudera
12. DataKind
13. Datameer
14. DataSift
15. DataStax
16. Elasticsearch
17. Gnip
18. GoodData
19. Guavus
20. Hadapt
21. Hazelcast
22. Hortonworks
23. Jaspersoft
24. Kaggle
25. Karmasphere
26. Kontagent
27. LucidWorks
28. MapR
29. MarkLogic
30. MongoDB
31. Mu Sigma
32. Neo Technology
33. NGData
34. Opera Solutions
35. Oxdata
36. Palantir
37. ParStream
38. Pentaho
39. Pivotal
40. Platfora
41. PROS
42. Qubole
43. Revolution Analytics
44. Rocket Fuel
45. SISense
46. Skytree
47. Splunk
48. Tableau Software
49. The Hive
50. WibiData

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