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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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Deequ

Data Quality Plane · Testing & Validation

Library from AWS Labs for defining unit tests for data on Apache Spark.

  • Open source

Great Expectations

Data Quality Plane · Testing & Validation

Data validation framework for defining, running and documenting expectations about data. GX Core is Apache 2.0 and now stewarded by Fivetran; GX Cloud was acquired by FICO and withdrawn from public sale in June 2026.

  • Open source

Pandera

Data Quality Plane · Testing & Validation

Statistical data validation for DataFrames in Python.

  • Open source

Soda

Data Quality Plane · Testing & Validation

Data quality and data contract verification with checks written in YAML, plus a cloud platform. Soda Core moved from Apache 2.0 to the Elastic License 2.0 with version 4 in January 2026, so the engine is source-available.

  • Source available

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