Data tooling landscape

Data Plane

Where data is stored and processed. Warehouses, lakehouses, open table formats, engines, storage and streaming.

17 tools · 6 categories

Cloud Data Warehouses (4)

ClickHouse

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Open-source columnar database for real-time analytics, also offered as a managed cloud service.

  • Open core

Google BigQuery

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Serverless data warehouse on Google Cloud.

  • Cloud service

Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

T-SQL data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric that stores its tables in Delta format in OneLake.

  • Cloud service

Snowflake

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Fully managed cloud data platform with separate storage and compute, known for SQL warehousing and data sharing.

  • Commercial

Lakehouse Platforms (3)

Databricks

Data Plane · Lakehouse Platforms

Lakehouse platform built on Apache Spark and open table formats, governed through Unity Catalog.

  • Commercial

Dremio

Data Plane · Lakehouse Platforms

Lakehouse query engine and semantic layer built on Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow.

  • Open core

Microsoft Fabric

Data Plane · Lakehouse Platforms

SaaS analytics platform that unifies data engineering, warehousing, real-time analytics and Power BI on OneLake.

  • Cloud service

Open Table Formats (3)

Apache Hudi

Data Plane · Open Table Formats

Open data lakehouse format focused on incremental processing, upserts and deletes.

  • Open source

Apache Iceberg

Data Plane · Open Table Formats

Open table format for large analytic tables, supported by many engines and platforms.

  • Open source

Delta Lake

Data Plane · Open Table Formats

Open table format that adds ACID transactions, time travel and schema enforcement to data lakes.

  • Open source

Query & Processing Engines (2)

Apache Spark

Data Plane · Query & Processing Engines

Distributed engine for large-scale data processing, SQL, streaming and machine learning.

  • Open source

DuckDB

Data Plane · Query & Processing Engines

In-process analytical SQL database, popular for local analytics and embedded workloads.

  • Open source

Object Storage (3)

Amazon S3

Data Plane · Object Storage

Object storage service from AWS, commonly used as the foundation of data lakes.

  • Cloud service

Azure Data Lake Storage

Data Plane · Object Storage

Data lake storage on Azure Blob Storage, with a hierarchical namespace.

  • Cloud service

Google Cloud Storage

Data Plane · Object Storage

Object storage service on Google Cloud.

  • Cloud service

Streaming & Stream Processing (2)

Apache Kafka

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Distributed event streaming platform for high-throughput data pipelines and streaming applications.

  • Open source

Azure Event Hubs

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Managed event ingestion service on Azure, with a Kafka-compatible endpoint.

  • Cloud service