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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Data Governance Plane

Security Plane

Visualisation & BI Plane

AI & ML Plane

172 results · showing 25–48

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

AWS Key Management Service

Security Plane · Secrets & Key Management

Managed service for creating and controlling the encryption keys used across AWS services.

  • Cloud service

AWS Step Functions

Control Plane · Orchestration & Scheduling

Serverless AWS service for orchestrating multi-step workflows across AWS services.

  • Cloud service

Azure Data Factory

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Azure's managed service for data integration and ETL/ELT pipelines.

  • Cloud service

Azure Data Lake Storage

Data Plane · Object Storage

Data lake storage on Azure Blob Storage, with a hierarchical namespace.

  • Cloud service

Azure DevOps

Control Plane · DataOps & CI/CD

Microsoft's suite of repos, boards and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Commercial

Azure Event Hubs

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Managed event ingestion service on Azure, with a Kafka-compatible endpoint.

  • Cloud service

Azure Key Vault

Security Plane · Secrets & Key Management

Azure service for storing secrets, keys and certificates, including customer-managed keys.

  • Cloud service

Azure Machine Learning

AI & ML Plane · ML Platforms & Lifecycle

Azure service covering the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.

  • Cloud service

Azure Monitor

Observability Plane · Pipeline & Infrastructure Monitoring

Azure service for collecting and analysing telemetry from cloud and on-premises environments.

  • Cloud service

Bicep

Control Plane · Infrastructure as Code

Microsoft's domain-specific language for declaratively deploying Azure resources.

  • Open source

Bigeye

Observability Plane · Data Observability

Data observability platform with automated monitoring and lineage-based root cause analysis.

  • Commercial

BigID

Data Governance Plane · Privacy & Compliance

Data discovery and classification for privacy, security and governance.

  • Commercial

Boomi

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.

  • Commercial

ClickHouse

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

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

  • Open core

Cloudera

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.

  • Commercial

Coalesce

Integration & ETL Plane · Transformation & Modelling

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

  • Commercial

Collibra

Data Governance Plane · Governance & Stewardship

Data intelligence platform for governance, cataloguing, stewardship and lineage.

  • Commercial

Conduktor

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.

  • Commercial

Confluent

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, available as a cloud service or self-managed.

  • Commercial

Cube

Metadata Plane · Semantic Layer & Metrics

Semantic layer that defines metrics once and serves them to BI tools, applications and AI.

  • Open core

Cyera

Security Plane · Data Security Posture Management

Data security posture management that discovers and classifies sensitive data across clouds.

  • Commercial

Dagster

Control Plane · Orchestration & Scheduling

Data orchestrator built around software-defined assets, with lineage and observability built in.

  • Open core

Data Contract CLI

Data Quality Plane · Data Contracts

Command-line tool for linting, testing and exporting data contracts.

  • Open source

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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.