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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8 results

Amazon Redshift

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Managed cloud data warehouse on AWS, with provisioned and serverless options.

  • Cloud service

ClickHouse

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Open-source columnar database for real-time analytics, also offered as a managed cloud service.

  • Open core

Firebolt

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Analytical database for low-latency, high-concurrency workloads, PostgreSQL-compatible and reading Iceberg. The engine is open source in preview; managed and bring-your-own-cloud options are sold.

  • Open core

Google BigQuery

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Serverless data warehouse on Google Cloud.

  • Cloud service

Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

T-SQL data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric that stores its tables in Delta format in OneLake.

  • Cloud service

MotherDuck

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Serverless cloud warehouse built on DuckDB, with dual execution splitting a query between laptop and cloud, and zero-copy sharing between accounts.

  • Cloud service

Snowflake

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Fully managed cloud data platform with separate storage and compute, known for SQL warehousing and data sharing.

  • Commercial

Teradata Vantage

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Enterprise analytics and data warehouse platform, available on major clouds and on-premises.

  • Commercial

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