#3 Teradata
Head Office: Dayton, Ohio

Teradata is very popular for its hardware platforms, databases and analytics software. In addition to this, it also offers other industrial specific tools for retail and transport sectors. The company earned $435 million in big data revenue.

#2 HP
Head Office: Palo Alto, California

Even though HP is well known for its Vertical Analytics Platform, it also combines lot many hardware and software services. With $ 664 million, the company stood second among the Big Data vendors of 2012.

#1 IBM
Head Office: Armonk, New York

With whooping revenue of $1.3 billion, IBM bagged the first position among the biggest data vendors of 2012. The company serves a vast area with its services extending from server and storage hardware, database software, analytics applications and other associated services. The prominent products offered by the company include DB2, Informix and InfoSphere database platforms, and Cognos and SPSS analytics applications.

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