Data tooling landscape

Data Governance Plane

Decides who may use which data, and for what. Access policies, stewardship, privacy and master data.

14 tools · 4 categories

Access Policy Enforcement (3)

Apache Ranger

Data Governance Plane · Access Policy Enforcement

Framework for centrally managing fine-grained access policies across Hadoop and related data services.

  • Open source

Immuta

Data Governance Plane · Access Policy Enforcement

Data security and access governance with policy-based access control for cloud data platforms.

  • Commercial

Privacera (Trust3 AI)

Data Governance Plane · Access Policy Enforcement

Data access governance built on Apache Ranger, for cloud and hybrid data platforms. Rebranded to Trust3 AI in March 2026 under the same company; product documentation still carries the Privacera name.

  • Commercial

Governance & Stewardship (4)

Collibra

Data Governance Plane · Governance & Stewardship

Data intelligence platform for governance, cataloguing, stewardship and lineage.

  • Commercial

Microsoft Purview

Data Governance Plane · Governance & Stewardship

Microsoft's portfolio for data governance, security and compliance, including a data catalogue.

  • Cloud service

Snowflake Horizon Catalog

Data Governance Plane · Governance & Stewardship

Snowflake's built-in governance for compliance, security, discovery and lineage.

  • Commercial

Privacy & Compliance (3)

BigID

Data Governance Plane · Privacy & Compliance

Data discovery and classification for privacy, security and governance.

  • Commercial

OneTrust

Data Governance Plane · Privacy & Compliance

Privacy, consent and data governance platform for regulatory compliance programmes.

  • Commercial

Securiti

Data Governance Plane · Privacy & Compliance

Platform for data security, privacy and governance across clouds and SaaS applications. Veeam acquired Securiti in December 2025, and its releases now read Veeam's Securiti AI.

  • Commercial

Master Data Management (4)

Informatica MDM

Data Governance Plane · Master Data Management

Master data management for creating trusted, unified records of customers, products and more.

  • Commercial

Profisee

Data Governance Plane · Master Data Management

Master data management platform closely aligned with the Microsoft data platform.

  • Commercial

Reltio

Data Governance Plane · Master Data Management

Cloud-native master data management and entity resolution platform. SAP completed its acquisition of Reltio in May 2026; it becomes a capability within SAP's data platform while remaining available standalone.

  • Commercial

Semarchy

Data Governance Plane · Master Data Management

Data platform for master data management, data quality and governance.

  • Commercial