ANALYST REPORT
The Forrester Wave™: Data Lakehouses, Q3 2026
Cloudera named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Lakehouses, Q3 2026
We’re proud to announce that Cloudera has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Lakehouses, Q3 2026. We believe this recognition validates our ability to help enterprises unify data, analytics, and AI across clouds, the edge, and on-premises to deliver a data foundation for secure, scalable, and trusted enterprise AI.
Cloudera’s lakehouse, powered by Apache Iceberg, securely transforms complex, distributed data into context for your agents. To act autonomously, enterprise AI agents need more than generic algorithms; they require precise, real-time data, complete historical lineage, and robust security controls. Cloudera’s open, extensible, interoperable lakehouse architecture is built to solve this exact challenge—accelerating enterprise AI adoption by feeding your agentic workflows with trusted, highly contextual, and fully governed data.
Explore the full report to learn more.
- According to the report: "Cloudera is a strong fit for enterprises requiring hybrid flexibility, strong governance, real-time analytics, and operational control across large, distributed, and highly regulated data environments."
- Explore the capabilities of the 14 top providers, including real-time streaming, federated query access, semantic and vector search, and agentic AI workflows across complex, hybrid landscapes.
- Discover why customers value Cloudera's flexibility, scalability, hybrid deployment model, and cost efficiency for large-scale data operations.
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