Azure Key Vault
Security Plane · Secrets & Key Management
Azure service for storing secrets, keys and certificates, including customer-managed keys.
- Cloud service
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.
51 tools · 10 planes · 36 categories. Listings are editorial and unpaid; any sponsored placement will always be labelled.
Control Plane
5 toolsDecides what runs, when and how. Orchestration, infrastructure as code and CI/CD for data.
Orchestration & Scheduling
Infrastructure as Code
DataOps & CI/CD
Data Plane
17 toolsWhere data is stored and processed. Warehouses, lakehouses, open table formats, engines, storage and streaming.
Cloud Data Warehouses
Lakehouse Platforms
Open Table Formats
Query & Processing Engines
Object Storage
Streaming & Stream Processing
Integration & ETL Plane
7 toolsMoves and shapes data. Ingestion connectors, change data capture, transformation and reverse ETL.
Change Data Capture & Replication
Transformation & Modelling
Reverse ETL & Activation
Data Quality Plane
3 toolsProves data is fit for use. Tests, validation rules, data contracts and profiling.
Testing & Validation
Data Contracts
Profiling & Anomaly Detection
Observability Plane
1 toolsTells you when data or pipelines break, and what they cost. Data observability, monitoring and FinOps.
Metadata Plane
5 toolsDescribes the data. Catalogues, technical catalogues, lineage and semantic layers.
Data Catalogues & Discovery
Table & Technical Catalogues
Lineage
Semantic Layer & Metrics
Data Governance Plane
6 toolsDecides who may use which data, and for what. Access policies, stewardship, privacy and master data.
Access Policy Enforcement
Governance & Stewardship
Privacy & Compliance
Master Data Management
Security Plane
3 toolsProtects data and access. Identity, secrets and keys, data security posture, masking and tokenisation.
Identity & Access
Secrets & Key Management
Data Security Posture Management
Masking & Tokenisation
Visualisation & BI Plane
4 toolsTurns data into decisions. BI and dashboards, notebooks and data apps.
BI & Dashboards
Notebooks & Data Apps
AI & ML Plane
0 toolsBuilds on governed data. ML platforms, feature stores and vector search.
ML Platforms & Lifecycle
Feature Stores
Vector Databases & Search
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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.