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
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.
172 results · showing 25–48
Metadata Plane · Table & Technical Catalogues
Managed technical metadata catalogue for data on AWS, used by services such as Athena, EMR and Redshift.
Security Plane · Secrets & Key Management
Managed service for creating and controlling the encryption keys used across AWS services.
Control Plane · Orchestration & Scheduling
Serverless AWS service for orchestrating multi-step workflows across AWS services.
Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion
Azure's managed service for data integration and ETL/ELT pipelines.
Data Plane · Object Storage
Data lake storage on Azure Blob Storage, with a hierarchical namespace.
Control Plane · DataOps & CI/CD
Microsoft's suite of repos, boards and CI/CD pipelines.
Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing
Managed event ingestion service on Azure, with a Kafka-compatible endpoint.
Security Plane · Secrets & Key Management
Azure service for storing secrets, keys and certificates, including customer-managed keys.
AI & ML Plane · ML Platforms & Lifecycle
Azure service covering the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
Observability Plane · Pipeline & Infrastructure Monitoring
Azure service for collecting and analysing telemetry from cloud and on-premises environments.
Control Plane · Infrastructure as Code
Microsoft's domain-specific language for declaratively deploying Azure resources.
Observability Plane · Data Observability
Data observability platform with automated monitoring and lineage-based root cause analysis.

Data Governance Plane · Privacy & Compliance
Data discovery and classification for privacy, security and governance.
Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion
Enterprise integration platform spanning application and data integration, API management and agentic workflow orchestration, with an embedded option for building integration into your own product.

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses
Open-source columnar database for real-time analytics, also offered as a managed cloud service.
Data Plane · Lakehouse Platforms
Hybrid data and AI platform running the same containerised data services on-premises and in cloud, with its own S3-compatible object store built on Apache Ozone.
Integration & ETL Plane · Transformation & Modelling
Visual, code-first data transformation platform for cloud data warehouses.
Data Governance Plane · Governance & Stewardship
Data intelligence platform for governance, cataloguing, stewardship and lineage.
Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing
Kafka operations platform sitting in front of clusters you already run, pairing a console for visibility and self-service with a proxy that enforces encryption, masking and policy on the wire.
Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing
Data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, available as a cloud service or self-managed.

Metadata Plane · Semantic Layer & Metrics
Semantic layer that defines metrics once and serves them to BI tools, applications and AI.
Security Plane · Data Security Posture Management
Data security posture management that discovers and classifies sensitive data across clouds.
Control Plane · Orchestration & Scheduling
Data orchestrator built around software-defined assets, with lineage and observability built in.

Data Quality Plane · Data Contracts
Command-line tool for linting, testing and exporting data contracts.
The landscape is curated editorially for now; public submissions open later. Inclusion is never paid for, and any sponsored placement will be clearly labelled.