Data tooling landscape

OpenMetadata

Metadata Plane · Data Catalogues & Discovery

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

• Open core

OpenTelemetry

Observability Plane · Pipeline & Infrastructure Monitoring

Vendor-neutral standard and tooling for collecting traces, metrics and logs.

• Open source

OpenTofu

Control Plane · Infrastructure as Code

Open-source fork of Terraform under the Linux Foundation, compatible with Terraform providers.

• Open source

Real-time data replication and change data capture across Oracle and other databases.

• Commercial

Statistical data validation for DataFrames in Python.

• Open source

pgvector

AI & ML Plane · Vector Databases & Search

PostgreSQL extension for vector similarity search.

• Open source

Fully managed vector database for similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation.

• Commercial

Polars

Data Plane · Query & Processing Engines

Fast DataFrame library written in Rust, with Python bindings.

• Open source

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

• Commercial

Prefect

Control Plane · Orchestration & Scheduling

Python-native workflow orchestration framework with a managed cloud service.

• Open core

Privacera (Trust3 AI)

Data Governance Plane · Access Policy Enforcement

Data access governance built on Apache Ranger, for cloud and hybrid data platforms. Rebranded to Trust3 AI in March 2026 under the same company; product documentation still carries the Privacera name.

• Commercial

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

• Commercial

Prometheus

Observability Plane · Pipeline & Infrastructure Monitoring

Open-source monitoring system and time-series database, a CNCF project.

• Open source

Protegrity

Security Plane · Masking & Tokenisation

Data protection platform for tokenisation, encryption and masking across data platforms.

• Commercial

Pulumi

Control Plane · Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as code written in general-purpose languages such as TypeScript, Python and Go.

• Open core

Qdrant

AI & ML Plane · Vector Databases & Search

Open-source vector search engine written in Rust, with a managed cloud offering.

• Open core

Qlik Replicate

Integration & ETL Plane · Change Data Capture & Replication

Data replication and change data capture across databases, warehouses and streaming platforms.

• Commercial

Qlik Sense

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

Analytics platform with an associative engine for exploring data.

• Commercial

Redpanda

Data Plane · Streaming & Stream Processing

Kafka API-compatible streaming data platform written in C++.

• Source available

Reltio

Data Governance Plane · Master Data Management

Cloud-native master data management and entity resolution platform. SAP completed its acquisition of Reltio in May 2026; it becomes a capability within SAP's data platform while remaining available standalone.

• Commercial

Customer data pipelines for event collection, warehouse-native identity and reverse ETL. The server is under the Elastic License 2.0, and reverse ETL is not available in the free self-hosted tier.

• Source available

SAP's model-driven design tool for conceptual, logical and physical data models alongside enterprise architecture, backed by a shared metadata repository.

• Commercial

Securiti

Data Governance Plane · Privacy & Compliance

Platform for data security, privacy and governance across clouds and SaaS applications. Veeam acquired Securiti in December 2025, and its releases now read Veeam's Securiti AI.

• Commercial

Cost and performance optimisation for Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery. Acquired by DoiT in January 2026 and now branded SELECT by DoiT, continuing as an independent product.

• Commercial