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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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Amazon Kinesis

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

AWS services for collecting and processing real-time streaming data.

  • Cloud service

Apache Flink

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Stateful stream processing framework for real-time computation over unbounded data.

  • Open source

Apache Kafka

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Distributed event streaming platform for high-throughput data pipelines and streaming applications.

  • Open source

Azure Event Hubs

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Managed event ingestion service on Azure, with a Kafka-compatible endpoint.

  • Cloud service

Conduktor

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Kafka operations platform sitting in front of clusters you already run, pairing a console for visibility and self-service with a proxy that enforces encryption, masking and policy on the wire.

  • Commercial

Confluent

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, available as a cloud service or self-managed.

  • Commercial

Redpanda

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Kafka API-compatible streaming data platform written in C++.

  • Source available

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