Data tooling landscape

Feast

AI & ML Plane · Feature Stores

Open-source feature store for serving machine learning features in training and production.

• Open source

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

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

• Commercial

Reverse ETL that syncs warehouse data into operational tools. Fivetran acquired Census in 2025 and the product is now Fivetran Activations; getcensus.com redirects and month-to-month Census plans ended in March 2026.

• Commercial

Integration platform from Safe Software handling any data format, with particular depth in spatial and engineering data that general ELT tools do not cover.

• Commercial

Data contract platform that detects breaking data changes at the source, in code.

• Commercial

Google Cloud platform for building and deploying ML models and generative AI applications.

• Cloud service

CI/CD automation built into GitHub, widely used to test and deploy data pipelines.

• Commercial

Serverless data warehouse on Google Cloud.

• Cloud service

Google Cloud service for managing cryptographic keys, including external key management.

• Cloud service

Object storage service on Google Cloud.

• Cloud service

Open-source dashboards for metrics, logs and traces, with a managed cloud offering.

• Open core

Data validation framework for defining, running and documenting expectations about data. GX Core is Apache 2.0 and now stewarded by Fivetran; GX Cloud was acquired by FICO and withdrawn from public sale in June 2026.

• Open source

Greybeam

Observability Plane · Cost & FinOps

Query router that cuts Snowflake spend by sending eligible queries to DuckDB and the rest to Snowflake, aimed at BI, embedded analytics and agent queries without a migration.

• Commercial

Polyglot data modeller that keeps one technology-agnostic model and derives schemas for relational, NoSQL and cloud platforms, APIs and file formats.

• Commercial

HashiCorp Vault

Security Plane · Secrets & Key Management

Secrets management and encryption service for tokens, passwords, certificates and keys.

• Source available

Collaborative data workspace combining SQL, Python notebooks and data apps.

• Commercial

Reverse ETL and data activation platform that syncs warehouse data into business tools.

• Commercial

Apache Hive's metadata service, still widely used as a table catalogue by Spark and other engines.

• Open source

Hopsworks

AI & ML Plane · Feature Stores

Data platform for AI with a feature store, sold as a managed service and self-managed on Kubernetes. The AGPL platform source sits two major versions behind the shipped product; only the Python client is currently open source.

• Open core

Immuta

Data Governance Plane · Access Policy Enforcement

Data security and access governance with policy-based access control for cloud data platforms.

• Commercial

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

Jupyter

Visualisation & BI Plane · Notebooks & Data Apps

Open-source notebooks for interactive computing in Python and other languages.

• Open source