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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Visualisation & BI Plane

AI & ML Plane

10 results

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

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