For decades, data warehouses and lakes have enabled companies to store (and sometimes process) large volumes of operational and analytical data.

The 2025 CRN Big Data 100 includes vendors of database data analytics, data management, AI and generative AI, data warehouses, data lakes, and data observability software and systems.

A significant chasm exists between most organizations’ current data infrastructure capabilities and those necessary to effectively support AI workloads.

Modern data warehouses can query structured data and semi-structured data simultaneously, and even combine historical data and streaming live data for analysis.