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.

51 tools · 10 planes · 36 categories. Listings are editorial and unpaid; any sponsored placement will always be labelled.

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Control Plane

5 tools

Decides what runs, when and how. Orchestration, infrastructure as code and CI/CD for data.

Orchestration & Scheduling

Apache Airflow

Infrastructure as Code

DataOps & CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Data Plane

17 tools

Where data is stored and processed. Warehouses, lakehouses, open table formats, engines, storage and streaming.

Cloud Data Warehouses

Lakehouse Platforms

Open Table Formats

Query & Processing Engines

Object Storage

Streaming & Stream Processing

Integration & ETL Plane

7 tools

Moves and shapes data. Ingestion connectors, change data capture, transformation and reverse ETL.

ELT & Ingestion

Change Data Capture & Replication

Debezium

Transformation & Modelling

Reverse ETL & Activation

Data Quality Plane

3 tools

Proves data is fit for use. Tests, validation rules, data contracts and profiling.

Testing & Validation

Data Contracts

Open Data Contract Standard

Profiling & Anomaly Detection

Observability Plane

1 tools

Tells you when data or pipelines break, and what they cost. Data observability, monitoring and FinOps.

Data Observability

Pipeline & Infrastructure Monitoring

Azure Monitor

Cost & FinOps

Metadata Plane

5 tools

Describes the data. Catalogues, technical catalogues, lineage and semantic layers.

Data Catalogues & Discovery

Table & Technical Catalogues

Unity Catalog

Lineage

OpenLineage

Semantic Layer & Metrics

Data Governance Plane

6 tools

Decides who may use which data, and for what. Access policies, stewardship, privacy and master data.

Access Policy Enforcement

Governance & Stewardship

Privacy & Compliance

Master Data Management

Security Plane

3 tools

Protects data and access. Identity, secrets and keys, data security posture, masking and tokenisation.

Identity & Access

Secrets & Key Management

Azure Key Vault

Data Security Posture Management

Masking & Tokenisation

Visualisation & BI Plane

4 tools

Turns data into decisions. BI and dashboards, notebooks and data apps.

BI & Dashboards

Notebooks & Data Apps

AI & ML Plane

0 tools

Builds on governed data. ML platforms, feature stores and vector search.

ML Platforms & Lifecycle

Feature Stores

Vector Databases & Search

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51 results · showing 25–48

Dremio

Data Plane · Lakehouse Platforms

Lakehouse query engine and semantic layer built on Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow.

Open core

DuckDB

Data Plane · Query & Processing Engines

In-process analytical SQL database, popular for local analytics and embedded workloads.

Open source

Fivetran

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Managed ELT connectors that replicate data from SaaS applications and databases into warehouses and lakes.

Commercial

Google BigQuery

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

Serverless data warehouse on Google Cloud.

Cloud service

Google Cloud Storage

Data Plane · Object Storage

Object storage service on Google Cloud.

Cloud service

Great Expectations

Data Quality Plane · Testing & Validation

Data validation framework for defining, running and documenting expectations about data.

Open core

Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog

Data Governance Plane · Governance & Stewardship

Cloud service for data cataloguing, governance and data quality within Informatica's data management cloud.

Commercial

Informatica MDM

Data Governance Plane · Master Data Management

Master data management for creating trusted, unified records of customers, products and more.

Commercial

Looker

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

BI platform on Google Cloud with a modelling layer, LookML, for governed metrics.

Cloud service

Matillion

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Cloud data integration and transformation platform for building pipelines on cloud data platforms.

Commercial

Microsoft Entra ID

Security Plane · Identity & Access

Microsoft's cloud identity and access management service, used for single sign-on to Azure and Fabric.

Cloud service

Microsoft Fabric

Data Plane · Lakehouse Platforms

SaaS analytics platform that unifies data engineering, warehousing, real-time analytics and Power BI on OneLake.

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

Microsoft Purview

Data Governance Plane · Governance & Stewardship

Microsoft's portfolio for data governance, security and compliance, including a data catalogue.

Cloud service

Okta

Security Plane · Identity & Access

Identity platform for single sign-on, multi-factor authentication and user lifecycle management.

Commercial

Open Data Contract Standard

Data Quality Plane · Data Contracts

Open specification from the Bitol project for describing data contracts in YAML.

Open source

OpenLineage

Metadata Plane · Lineage

Open standard for collecting lineage metadata from pipelines and engines.

Open source

OpenMetadata

Metadata Plane · Data Catalogues & Discovery

Open-source metadata platform for discovery, lineage, data quality and collaboration.

Open core

Power BI

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

Microsoft's BI platform for semantic models, reports and dashboards, integrated with Fabric.

Commercial

Profisee

Data Governance Plane · Master Data Management

Master data management platform closely aligned with the Microsoft data platform.

Commercial

Qlik Sense

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

Analytics platform with an associative engine for exploring data.

Commercial

Snowflake

Data Plane · Cloud Data Warehouses

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

Commercial

Snowflake Horizon Catalog

Data Governance Plane · Governance & Stewardship

Snowflake's built-in governance for compliance, security, discovery and lineage.

Commercial

Soda

Data Quality Plane · Testing & Validation

Data quality testing with checks written in a declarative language, plus a cloud platform.

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.