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

6 results

Apache Gravitino

Metadata Plane · Table & Technical Catalogues

Federated metadata catalogue for tables, files, streams and models, managed in place across sources and served to Spark, Trino and Flink through one namespace.

  • Open source

Apache Polaris

Metadata Plane · Table & Technical Catalogues

Open-source catalogue that implements the Apache Iceberg REST catalogue API.

  • Open source

AWS Glue Data Catalog

Metadata Plane · Table & Technical Catalogues

Managed technical metadata catalogue for data on AWS, used by services such as Athena, EMR and Redshift.

  • Cloud service

Datastrato Enterprise

Metadata Plane · Table & Technical Catalogues

Commercial distribution of Apache Gravitino, adding SCIM provisioning, role-based access control across federated catalogues, an administration UI, audit logging and a supported Helm chart.

  • Commercial

Hive Metastore

Metadata Plane · Table & Technical Catalogues

Apache Hive's metadata service, still widely used as a table catalogue by Spark and other engines.

  • Open source

Unity Catalog

Metadata Plane · Table & Technical Catalogues

Governance catalogue for data and AI assets, available as open source and managed in Databricks.

  • Open core

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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.