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.

152 tools · 10 planes · 37 categories. Listings are editorial and unpaid; any sponsored placement will always be labelled.

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Observability Plane

Metadata Plane

Data Governance Plane

Security Plane

Visualisation & BI Plane

AI & ML Plane

5 results

Milvus

AI & ML Plane · Vector Databases & Search

Open-source vector database built for large-scale similarity search.

  • Open source

pgvector

AI & ML Plane · Vector Databases & Search

PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search.

  • Open source

Pinecone

AI & ML Plane · Vector Databases & Search

Fully managed vector database for similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation.

  • Commercial

Qdrant

AI & ML Plane · Vector Databases & Search

Open-source vector search engine written in Rust, with a managed cloud offering.

  • Open core

Weaviate

AI & ML Plane · Vector Databases & Search

Open-source vector database with hybrid search, also available as a managed cloud.

  • 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.