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Core Data Tools
The building blocks of a modern data stack
Data Pipeline & Orchestration
47Tools for scheduling, managing, and monitoring data workflows and ETL/ELT pipelines.
Business Intelligence (BI)
29Platforms for data visualization, dashboards, and actionable business insights.
Cloud Data Warehouses
28Scalable SQL engines and storage systems for analytics and reporting.
Data Quality
22Solutions to validate, profile, and ensure trust in your data assets.
AI & Machine Learning
Platforms, agents, and infrastructure for AI-powered applications
AI Agents & Infrastructure
21AI agent frameworks, MCP servers, agent memory, monitoring, and infrastructure tools for building and managing autonomous AI agents.
AI Platforms
19AI platforms, foundation models, and applied AI tools for data and enterprise
MLOps & AI Platforms
15Tools for managing the machine learning lifecycle, from training to deployment and monitoring.
Vector Databases
13Vector databases for AI embeddings, similarity search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
DevOps & Engineering
Developer tools, security, and observability for modern engineering teams
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Neo4j
Connect data as it's stored with Neo4j. Perform powerful, complex queries at scale and speed with our graph data platform.
KNIME
Free and open source with all your data analysis tools. Create data science solutions with the visual workflow builder & put them into production in the enterprise.
dlt (data load tool)
Write any custom data source, achieve data democracy, modernise legacy systems and reduce cloud costs.
Secoda
Redefine data governance and trust with AI built on a foundation of data cataloging, lineage, observability, and quality —all enriched by your business context.
HypeScribe
Need accurate, fast transcriptions from voice, video, podcast & more? HypeScribe gives you summaries, AI insights & easy collaboration — all in one app.
Apache Kafka
Distributed event streaming platform for high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines.
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Rivery
FreemiumFrom $29.00/mo
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FreemiumFree tier available
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FreemiumFree tier available
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FreemiumFrom $100.00/mo
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EnterpriseFree tier available
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Open SourceFree tier available
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Usage-BasedFree tier available
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FreeFree tier available
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Latest additions to our directory
Weights & Biases
ML experiment tracking platform with best-in-class visualization, collaboration, and hyperparameter sweeps.
Tableau
Visual analytics and BI with interactive dashboards
Snowflake
Fully managed cloud data platform with elastic compute and storage separation
Amazon Redshift
Fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse from AWS
Metabase
Open-source BI tool for fast, easy data exploration
Looker
Enterprise BI platform with LookML semantic modeling and embedded analytics
Fivetran
Managed ELT platform with 600+ automated connectors for SaaS, databases, and events
dbt (data build tool)
SQL-based data transformation framework for modern cloud warehouses
Dagster
Asset-centric data orchestrator with built-in lineage, observability, and dbt integration
Apache Kafka
Distributed event streaming platform for high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines.
Apache Airflow
Programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows
Amazon QuickSight
AI-powered BI that transforms data into strategic insights for everyone through unified intelligence, actionable analytics, and democratized data access.
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