Data tooling landscape

A neutral map of the tools used to build data platforms, organised by the plane they serve: from orchestration and storage to governance, security and AI.

55 tools · 10 planes · 37 categories. Listings are editorial and unpaid; any sponsored placement will always be labelled.

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Planes
Categories

Control Plane

Data Plane

Integration & ETL Plane

Data Quality Plane

Observability Plane

Metadata Plane

Data Governance Plane

Security Plane

Visualisation & BI Plane

AI & ML Plane

4 results

ER/Studio

Metadata Plane · Data Modelling & Design

Idera's enterprise data modelling suite for logical and physical models, with a shared team repository, business glossary and web portal for metadata.

  • Commercial

erwin Data Modeler

Metadata Plane · Data Modelling & Design

Long-established data modelling tool, now from Quest, for conceptual, logical and physical models, with forward and reverse engineering of database schemas.

  • Commercial

SAP PowerDesigner

Metadata Plane · Data Modelling & Design

SAP's model-driven design tool for conceptual, logical and physical data models alongside enterprise architecture, backed by a shared metadata repository.

  • Commercial

SqlDBM

Metadata Plane · Data Modelling & Design

Browser-based data modelling for cloud platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery, with Git and dbt integration for team workflows.

  • Cloud service

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