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.

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

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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

Azure DevOps

Control Plane · DataOps & CI/CD

Microsoft's suite of repos, boards and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Commercial

Datafold

Control Plane · DataOps & CI/CD

Data diffing and automated testing that shows how code changes affect data before deployment.

  • Commercial

GitHub Actions

Control Plane · DataOps & CI/CD

CI/CD automation built into GitHub, widely used to test and deploy data pipelines.

  • Commercial

lakeFS

Control Plane · DataOps & CI/CD

Git-like version control for data lakes, with branches, commits and rollbacks on object storage.

  • Source available

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The landscape is curated editorially for now; public submissions open later. Inclusion is never paid for, and any sponsored placement will be clearly labelled.