Data tooling landscape

Integration & ETL Plane

Moves and shapes data. Ingestion connectors, change data capture, transformation and reverse ETL.

21 tools · 4 categories

ELT & Ingestion (10)

Airbyte

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Data integration platform with a large connector catalogue, self-hosted or as a cloud service.

  • Open core

AWS Glue

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Serverless data integration service on AWS for discovering, preparing and moving data.

  • Cloud service

Azure Data Factory

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Azure's managed service for data integration and ETL/ELT pipelines.

  • Cloud service

Boomi

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Enterprise integration platform spanning application and data integration, API management and agentic workflow orchestration, with an embedded option for building integration into your own product.

  • Commercial

Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Pipelines and Dataflow Gen2 for ingesting and transforming data in Microsoft Fabric.

  • Cloud service

dlt

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Open-source Python library for loading data from APIs and files into warehouses and lakes.

  • Open source

Fivetran

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Managed ELT connectors that replicate data from SaaS applications and databases into warehouses and lakes.

  • Commercial

FME

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Integration platform from Safe Software handling any data format, with particular depth in spatial and engineering data that general ELT tools do not cover.

  • Commercial

Matillion

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Cloud data integration and transformation platform for building pipelines on cloud data platforms.

  • Commercial

Snowplow

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Behavioural data pipeline that collects, validates and enriches customer events into your own warehouse. Now under the Snowplow Limited Use Licence, which restricts commercial use of the free edition.

  • Source available

Change Data Capture & Replication (4)

Debezium

Integration & ETL Plane · Change Data Capture & Replication

Open-source change data capture platform that streams database changes into Kafka and other systems.

  • Open source

Oracle GoldenGate

Integration & ETL Plane · Change Data Capture & Replication

Real-time data replication and change data capture across Oracle and other databases.

  • Commercial

Qlik Replicate

Integration & ETL Plane · Change Data Capture & Replication

Data replication and change data capture across databases, warehouses and streaming platforms.

  • Commercial

Striim

Integration & ETL Plane · Change Data Capture & Replication

Real-time data integration and streaming platform with change data capture.

  • Commercial

Transformation & Modelling (4)

Coalesce

Integration & ETL Plane · Transformation & Modelling

Visual, code-first data transformation platform for cloud data warehouses.

  • Commercial

Dataform

Integration & ETL Plane · Transformation & Modelling

Google Cloud service for developing and orchestrating SQL transformations in BigQuery.

  • Cloud service

dbt

Integration & ETL Plane · Transformation & Modelling

SQL-based transformation framework with testing and documentation, plus a managed platform.

  • Open core

SQLMesh

Integration & ETL Plane · Transformation & Modelling

Data transformation framework with virtual data environments and column-level lineage.

  • Open source

Reverse ETL & Activation (3)

Fivetran Activations (formerly Census)

Integration & ETL Plane · Reverse ETL & Activation

Reverse ETL that syncs warehouse data into operational tools. Fivetran acquired Census in 2025 and the product is now Fivetran Activations; getcensus.com redirects and month-to-month Census plans ended in March 2026.

  • Commercial

Hightouch

Integration & ETL Plane · Reverse ETL & Activation

Reverse ETL and data activation platform that syncs warehouse data into business tools.

  • Commercial

RudderStack

Integration & ETL Plane · Reverse ETL & Activation

Customer data pipelines for event collection, warehouse-native identity and reverse ETL. The server is under the Elastic License 2.0, and reverse ETL is not available in the free self-hosted tier.

  • Source available