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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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Bicep

Control Plane · Infrastructure as Code

Microsoft's domain-specific language for declaratively deploying Azure resources.

  • Open source

Databricks Asset Bundles

Control Plane · Infrastructure as Code

Defines Databricks jobs, pipelines and other workspace assets as YAML and deploys them with the Databricks CLI. Renamed Declarative Automation Bundles in 2026.

  • Commercial

OpenTofu

Control Plane · Infrastructure as Code

Open-source fork of Terraform under the Linux Foundation, compatible with Terraform providers.

  • Open source

Pulumi

Control Plane · Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as code written in general-purpose languages such as TypeScript, Python and Go.

  • Open core

Terraform

Control Plane · Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as code tool from HashiCorp, with providers for clouds and data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.

  • 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.