Data tooling landscape

Data platform for master data management, data quality and governance.

• Commercial

Cloud data security posture management for discovering and protecting sensitive data.

• Commercial

Sifflet

Observability Plane · Data Observability

Data observability platform that combines monitoring, lineage and a data catalogue.

• Commercial

Sigma

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

Spreadsheet-style analytics that queries the cloud warehouse directly, covering ad hoc analysis, dashboards, data apps and embedded analytics without extracting data.

• Commercial

Data privacy vault for isolating, protecting and governing sensitive 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's built-in governance for compliance, security, discovery and lineage.

• Commercial

Snowplow

Integration & ETL Plane · ELT & Ingestion

Behavioural data pipeline that collects, validates and enriches customer events into your own warehouse. Now under the Snowplow Limited Use Licence, which restricts commercial use of the free edition.

• Source available

Soda

Data Quality Plane · Testing & Validation

Data quality and data contract verification with checks written in YAML, plus a cloud platform. Soda Core moved from Apache 2.0 to the Elastic License 2.0 with version 4 in January 2026, so the engine is source-available.

• Source available

Data lineage modelling and visualisation for governance and regulatory use cases.

• Commercial

SqlDBM

Metadata Plane · Data Modelling & Design

Browser-based data modelling for cloud platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery, with Git and dbt integration for team workflows.

• Cloud service

Data transformation framework with virtual data environments and column-level lineage.

• Open source

Commercial data platform based on Trino, for querying data across many sources.

• Commercial

Streamlit

Visualisation & BI Plane · Notebooks & Data Apps

Open-source Python framework for building data apps, also available inside Snowflake.

• Open source

Real-time data integration and streaming platform with change data capture.

• Commercial

Visual analytics and BI platform for building interactive dashboards.

• Commercial

Feature platform for real-time machine learning features. Acquired by Databricks in August 2025; tecton.ai now redirects to Databricks and the documentation site is the only live product surface.

• Commercial

Enterprise analytics and data warehouse platform, available on major clouds and on-premises.

• Commercial

Infrastructure as code tool from HashiCorp, with providers for clouds and data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.

• Source available

Thales CipherTrust

Security Plane · Masking & Tokenisation

Data security platform for encryption, tokenisation and key management.

• Commercial

ThoughtSpot

Visualisation & BI Plane · BI & Dashboards

Search and AI-driven analytics on cloud data, sold as an analytics product and an embedded SDK, with LLM usage included in the subscription rather than metered.

• Commercial

Trino

Data Plane · Query & Processing Engines

Distributed SQL query engine for querying data where it lives, across many sources.

• Open source

Governance catalogue for data and AI assets, available as open source and managed in Databricks.

• Open core

Observability and cost optimisation for data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.

• Commercial