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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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Coalesce

Integration & ETL Plane · Transformation & Modelling

Visual, code-first data transformation platform for cloud data warehouses.

  • Commercial

Dataform

Integration & ETL Plane · Transformation & Modelling

Google Cloud service for developing and orchestrating SQL transformations in BigQuery.

  • Cloud service

dbt

Integration & ETL Plane · Transformation & Modelling

SQL-based transformation framework with testing and documentation, plus a managed platform.

  • Open core

SQLMesh

Integration & ETL Plane · Transformation & Modelling

Data transformation framework with virtual data environments and column-level lineage.

  • Open source

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