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Cloud Data Warehouses
36Scalable SQL engines and storage systems for analytics and reporting.
Business Intelligence (BI)
33Platforms for data visualization, dashboards, and actionable business insights.
Data Quality
23Solutions to validate, profile, and ensure trust in your data assets.
AI & machine learning
AI Agent Frameworks
23Frameworks and platforms for building, orchestrating, and deploying autonomous AI agents — from multi-agent orchestration and visual workflow builders to agent memory, tool integration, and observability.
MLOps & AI Platforms
22Tools for managing the machine learning lifecycle, from training to deployment and monitoring.
AI Platforms
19AI platforms, foundation models, and applied AI tools for data and enterprise
Vector Databases
17Vector databases for AI embeddings, similarity search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
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Observability & Monitoring
28Application performance monitoring, infrastructure observability, log management, and metrics platforms.
Developer Tools
27AI coding assistants, IDEs, internal tool builders, infrastructure, and development utilities
Security
20Security, privacy, and authentication tools
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Hashgrid — Neural Information Exchange
AI Agent Frameworks Pricing guide
Hashgrid Protocol: neural information exchange for agents. Read the guide, browse the API docs, or join the network.
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Lightdash
Business Intelligence (BI) Pricing guide
Lightdash is the AI-first, open-source BI platform for modern data teams. Connect to dbt, define metrics once, and get instant, trustworthy insights.
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KNIME
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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.
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Weights & Biases
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DVC
Open-source version control system for Data Science and Machine Learning projects. Git-like experience to organize your data, models, and experiments.
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ThoughtSpot
Transform insights into action with the ThoughtSpot Agentic Analytics Platform—AI agents, automated insights, and embedded intelligence.
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MotherDuck
The modern cloud data warehouse powered by DuckDB. Serverless SQL analytics with no infrastructure to manage—query your data in seconds. Start free.
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MongoDB
Get your ideas to market faster with a flexible, AI-ready database. MongoDB makes working with data easy.
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Marqo
Marqo optimises search conversion using click-stream, purchase and event data, creating a personalised experience that knows what your customers are looking for - better than they do.
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TensorFlow
An end-to-end open source machine learning platform for everyone. Discover TensorFlow's flexible ecosystem of tools, libraries and community resources.
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