Comparison of The Best Data Management Software for Efficient Data Processing and Analysis

Efficient data management relies on powerful tools that streamline processes from collection to visualization. Our insights at BARC, drawn from extensive user feedback and analyst expertise, highlight the leading data tools that stand out in usability and functionality. Learn about the tools that can significantly enhance your data workflows. Access our Data Management Survey for valuable user feedback on leading data management tools. Gain full access to our detailed reviews by subscribing to BARC+.

Number of reviews: 30
Customer Satisfaction
8.9/10
8.9
User Experience
10.0/10
10.0
Technical Foundation
7.7/10
7.7
Business Value
7.1/10
7.1

What is dataspot.

Data catalog and data governance solution to support the development and implementation of business-driven data governance initiatives. The software can be used stand-alone or in conjunction with dataspot.'s Data Excellence Framework (governance consulting approach).

Number of reviews: 20
Customer Satisfaction
4.9/10
4.9
User Experience
3.8/10
3.8
Technical Foundation
7.4/10
7.4
Business Value
6.6/10
6.6

What is Exasol Cloud

High-performance, massively parallel, column-oriented, in-memory database for data & analytics use cases that can be used on-premise, in the cloud or hybrid.

Number of reviews: 22
Customer Satisfaction
7.1/10
7.1
User Experience
7.9/10
7.9
Technical Foundation
4.9/10
4.9
Business Value
8.0/10
8.0

What is One Data Data Product Builder

End-to-end platform for the design, development and provision of data products with functions for pipelining and cataloging as well as governance, data quality and marketplace functions.

Number of reviews: 20
Customer Satisfaction
5.4/10
5.4
User Experience
4.0/10
4.0
Technical Foundation
4.4/10
4.4
Business Value
6.0/10
6.0

What is Qlik Data Integration

Solution for data replication, transformation and standardization in real time.

Number of reviews: 50
Customer Satisfaction
8.3/10
8.3
User Experience
8.3/10
8.3
Technical Foundation
8.7/10
8.7
Business Value
7.2/10
7.2

What is Snowflake Cloud Data Platform

Multi-cloud data platform to support data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development and data exchange.

Number of reviews: 24

What is Synabi Business Solutions D-QUANTUM

Customizable data governance solution with features for data cataloging, collaboration, marketplaces, and data as well as AI governance.

Number of reviews: 19
Customer Satisfaction
8.7/10
8.7
User Experience
7.6/10
7.6
Technical Foundation
6.9/10
6.9
Business Value
9.1/10
9.1

What is TimeXtender

Data automation tool for building and operating data lakes or data warehouses with features for data pipelining, master data management, data quality, and orchestration.

Number of reviews: 19
Customer Satisfaction
6.7/10
6.7
User Experience
6.0/10
6.0
Technical Foundation
5.0/10
5.0
Business Value
7.8/10
7.8

What is VaultSpeed

Low-/no-code data warehouse automation solution with focus on integration of distributed data sources, data vault modeling and ETL/DDL code generation.

Number of reviews: 20
Customer Satisfaction
8.8/10
8.8
User Experience
7.3/10
7.3
Technical Foundation
6.1/10
6.1
Business Value
8.8/10
8.8

What is 2150 Datavault Builder

Tool for automating the entire development, provisioning and operating cycle of a data warehouse.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Ab Initio Enterprise Data Platform

Platform developed in-house for the development of data management applications with a wide range of functions and numerous applications based on the Co>Operating System platform.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Actian Data Platform

Cloud-based end-to-end data platform for building analytical applications with functions for data integration, real-time analyses and data storage.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Actian Zeenea Data Intelligence Platform

Data catalog with a special focus on search & discovery, but also support for data governance.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Airbyte

Airbyte is an open source data integration engine that helps you to replicate and consolidate your data.

Number of reviews: 20
Customer Satisfaction
4.4/10
4.4
User Experience
5.0/10
5.0
Technical Foundation
4.2/10
4.2
Business Value
4.4/10
4.4

What is Alation Data Intelligence Platform

Alation is a data intelligence and metadata platform offering Search & Discovery, Collaboration, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Marketplace, Data Lineage, and more – delivering comprehensive and intuitive data management.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Alex Enterprise Data Platform

Data Intelligence Platform and Data Governance Platform with functions for Search & Discovery, Collaboration, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Marketplace, Data Lineage and more.

Number of reviews: 20
Customer Satisfaction
2.7/10
2.7
User Experience
6.0/10
6.0
Technical Foundation
5.0/10
5.0
Business Value
1.9/10
1.9

What is Amazon Redshift

Cloud-based data warehouse based on S3.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Amazon S3

Simple Storage Service of the AWS Cloud

Number of reviews: 21
Customer Satisfaction
4.6/10
4.6
User Experience
4.9/10
4.9
Technical Foundation
6.6/10
6.6
Business Value
1.9/10
1.9

What is Amazon Web Services (AWS) Glue

Fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service from Amazon Web Services, with complementary functions for data cleansing and preparation as well as discovering and cataloging data from various AWS services.

Number of reviews: 19
Customer Satisfaction
9.0/10
9.0
User Experience
8.6/10
8.6
Technical Foundation
7.7/10
7.7
Business Value
9.4/10
9.4

What is AnalyticsCreator

Tool for automating the entire development, provisioning and operating cycle of a data warehouse with focus on Microsoft technologies.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Apache Iceberg

Iceberg is an optimized format for large analytical tables for big data. It enables engines such as Spark, Trino, Flink, Presto, Hive and Impala to work with the same tables simultaneously.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Apache Kafka

Open source tool for processing and storing data streams.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Apache Spark

Framework with in-memory engine for distributed processing, components for real-time processing, machine learning, graph processing.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Ataccama ONE

Platform for data management, maintenance and provision with functions for data analysis, data cataloging, data quality and master data management and data integration.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Atlan

Data Intelligence Platform with functions for data cataloging, data governance, data lineage, etc. with a special focus on collaboration and active metadata management.

Number of reviews: 0

What is biGENIUS-X

Tool for automating the development, provisioning and operating cycle of data warehouses, data lakes and data lakehouses.

Number of reviews: 0

What is bluetelligence Enterprise Glossary

Data catalog and metadata hub specializing in the extraction and provision of metadata from SAP systems (data+application) and own data catalog (glossary).

Number of reviews: 0

What is Boomi Enterprise Platform

(Cloud-native) iPaaS platform for the integration of applications, data and processes with functions for API management, data integration, data preparation, data cataloging and workflow management, among others.

Number of reviews: 0

What is CData Platform

Data integration platform for replication, ETL/ELT and virtualization and extensive connectors for data extraction in the cloud and on-premises.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)

Hybrid cloud data platform for implementing various data and analytics applications based on central functions for governance and administration.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Coalesce

Data transformation platform for creating and modernizing data warehouses in Snowflake.

Number of reviews: 21
Customer Satisfaction
3.2/10
3.2
User Experience
2.9/10
2.9
Technical Foundation
3.6/10
3.6
Business Value
2.3/10
2.3

What is Collibra Data Intelligence Platform

A platform for data intelligence and metadata that provides features such as Search & Discovery, Collaboration, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Marketplace, and Data Lineage, suitable even for large organizations.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Confluent Platform

Commercial extension of the Apache Kafka Engine with standard connectors, additional features and support towards a fully managed data streaming solution.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Couchbase Server

Distributed, multi-purpose NoSQL database; also available as a Couchbase Cloud Service.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Crate.io CrateDB

Scalable database system with NoSQL architecture and distributed SQL engine with focus on large-scale scenarios with high write and read load, as well as real-time analytics; also available as a cloud service.

Number of reviews: 0

What is data.world Data Catalog and Governance Platform

Data catalog for metadata management and data management with a focus on knowledge management

Number of reviews: 24
Customer Satisfaction
5.4/10
5.4
User Experience
5.8/10
5.8
Technical Foundation
7.7/10
7.7
Business Value
5.4/10
5.4

What is Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

End-to-end platform solution for processing large amounts of data for data engineering & data science based on a further development of Apache Spark technology.

Number of reviews: 0

What is DataGalaxy Data Knowledge Catalog

Data Catalog solution to support Catalog, Data Governance, Compliance & Regulatory use cases or as a metadata hub.

Number of reviews: 0

What is DataStax Enterprise

Commercial edition of Apache Cassandra, an open source wide-column NoSQL database. Also available as a DBaaS offering with Astra DB.

Number of reviews: 19
Customer Satisfaction
8.2/10
8.2
User Experience
8.7/10
8.7
Technical Foundation
7.3/10
7.3
Business Value
7.4/10
7.4

What is dbt Cloud

Development environment for creating SQL-based transformations with support for software development processes such as modularity, portability, CI/CD and documentation.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Denodo Platform

Data virtualization platform with functional extensions for e.g. real-time use cases, data cataloging, support for self-service analytics. With Agora also available as cloud service.

Number of reviews: 21
Customer Satisfaction
4.6/10
4.6
User Experience
4.9/10
4.9
Technical Foundation
4.4/10
4.4
Business Value
6.5/10
6.5

What is Dremio Cloud

Dremio is a SQL-based query engine on Hadoop and cloud storage systems, with optimized services/products such as Dremio Sonar for data warehousing and Dremio Arctic as Apache Iceberg Lakehouse Catalog. Available in the cloud or on-premise.

Number of reviews: 0

What is eccenca Corporate Memory

Knowledge Graph technology for the implementation of AI, data integration, governance, supply chain optimization use cases and knowledge management.

Number of reviews: 0

What is erwin Data Intelligence

Data intelligence platform with functions for cataloging, governance, collaboration, data lineage, data marketplace and the ability to generate automated pipelines.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Exasol

High-performance, massively parallel, column-oriented, in-memory database for data & analytics use cases that can be used on-premise, in the cloud or hybrid.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Fivetran Data Platform

Cloud-based tool for data engineers to load cloud data warehouse systems (ingestion)

Number of reviews: 18
Customer Satisfaction
3.2/10
3.2
User Experience
3.9/10
3.9
Technical Foundation
4.8/10
4.8
Business Value
5.5/10
5.5

What is Google BigQuery

Fully managed, serverless data warehouse and analysis environment as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). BigQuery is optimized for the analysis of data in the petabyte range with SQL-like syntax.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Google Cloud Data Fusion

Service for the development and management of ETL/ELT pipelines in the Google Cloud Platform

Number of reviews: 0

What is Google Cloud Storage

Storage service of the Google Cloud Platform; basic storage for e.g. the development of data lakes, IoT applications or BigQuery

Number of reviews: 0

What is Greenplum Database

Open-source massively parallel relational (Postgres) database for storing and processing polystructured data.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Hitachi Vantara Pentaho+ Platform

Platform for data integration, preparation and analysis of data with functions for data preparation suitable for business users.

Number of reviews: 0

What is IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Cloud-based, integrated data and AI platform for integrating, managing and analyzing data for AI.

Number of reviews: 0

What is IBM Db2

Cloud-native, relational database system for transactional and analytical use cases.

Number of reviews: 0

What is IBM StreamSets

Tool for the development and management of streaming data pipelines.

Number of reviews: 21
Customer Satisfaction
4.6/10
4.6
User Experience
7.9/10
7.9
Technical Foundation
4.8/10
4.8
Business Value
5.7/10
5.7

What is Idera Wherescape RED

Data warehouse automation tool to support the development and operation of data warehouses; also supports cloud DWH such as Snowflake.

Number of reviews: 18
Customer Satisfaction
4.1/10
4.1
User Experience
2.9/10
2.9
Technical Foundation
3.4/10
3.4
Business Value
4.8/10
4.8

What is Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud

Cloud-based platform based on central, AI-supported services for implementing operational and analytical data use cases, e.g. data integration, data quality, master data management, API management, data cataloging, governance and data marketplace

Number of reviews: 0

What is InterSystems IRIS Data Platform

Data platform for analytical, transactional and AI applications.

Number of reviews: 0

What is MariaDB Enterprise

Relational open source database with flexible storage engine concept for implementing transactional and analytical workloads.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Matillion Data Productivity Cloud

SaaS-based, visual data integration tool for data extraction, processing, orchestration and monitoring of data pipelines with a focus on cloud data platforms as the target environment.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Microsoft Azure Data Factory

Cloud-based tool for data integration.

Number of reviews: 19
Customer Satisfaction
3.0/10
3.0
User Experience
3.6/10
3.6
Technical Foundation
5.1/10
5.1
Business Value
3.6/10
3.6

What is Microsoft Azure Synapse

Well-known relational database management system for transactional and analytical workloads with additional services for data integration, analysis, reporting, data quality and master data management.

Number of reviews: 19
Customer Satisfaction
6.3/10
6.3
User Experience
6.0/10
6.0
Technical Foundation
6.6/10
6.6
Business Value
5.5/10
5.5

What is Microsoft Data Fabric

A unified platform that enables data integration, analysis, and management for analytics in the Azure cloud by integrating various Azure data services such as Power BI, Synapse, Data Factory and Data Lake.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Microsoft Purview

Cloud service for data security & privacy, data governance and compliance with functions for data inventory, cataloging and data products/marketplace support.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Microsoft SQL Server

rDBMS for transactional and analytical workloads; additional services available for data integration, analysis, reporting, data quality and master data management

Number of reviews: 0

What is MID Innovator

Enterprise Modeling Suite for the modeling and analysis of data, software and enterprise architectures as well as business processes by business users.

Number of reviews: 0

What is MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB Atlas is a platform which consists of the document-based, distributed database for modern application development and data services.

Number of reviews: 0

What is MuleSoft from Salesforce Anypoint Platform

IPaaS platform for data and application integration.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Neo4j Graph Database

Graph-based database with additional services for data processing and analysis. Also available as a cloud service with Neo4j AuraDB.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Oracle Autonomous Database

Database solution based on relational Oracle technology with machine learning functions to support "autonomous" administration for analytical and transactional use cases.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Cloud platform with more than 100 services for data & analytics, including data pipelines, data warehousing, cataloging, event processing as well as analytical services for BI, analytics & data science.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Oracle Data Integrator

Integration platform to cover different data integration requirements from real-time/near-time, ELT/ELT to the creation of SOA-based data services.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Oracle Database

Relational database for OLTP/OLAP applications, extended by analytical storage engines and analytical functions to form a broad data management platform.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Orion Governance Enterprise Information Intelligence Graph (EIIG)

Data Intelligence Platform with functions for data cataloging, data lineage, data governance, active metadata and more.

Number of reviews: 0

What is OvalEdge

Tool for data cataloging, data marketplace and data governance.

Number of reviews: 0

What is PostgreSQL

Open source, object-relational database management system for transactional and analytical workloads.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Precisely Data Integrity Suite

Modular platform for data integration, data quality, data observability and governance to build an integrated, trustworthy database with special services for data enrichment and analysis.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Presto Foundation Presto

Presto, also known as PrestoDB, is an open source distributed SQL query engine.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Progress Data Platform

Metadata and data platform for data integration, cataloging and storage of data for transactional, analytical and AI applications.

Number of reviews: 0

What is SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC)

Cloud-based data and analytics platform for building a business data fabric & uniform access to SAP and non-SAP data consisting of SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Datasphere, among others.

Number of reviews: 0

What is SAP BW/4HANA

Data warehouse application based on SAP HANA.

Number of reviews: 20
Customer Satisfaction
3.8/10
3.8
User Experience
2.9/10
2.9
Technical Foundation
3.4/10
3.4
Business Value
4.8/10
4.8

What is SAP Datasphere

Cloud-based data platform for building a business data fabric that enables simple, standardized access to SAP data and integration with non-SAP data for both technical and business users.

Number of reviews: 0

What is SAP HANA Cloud

Tool for accelerating SAP Analytics projects based on SAP HANA through specialized modules for extracting and processing data.

Number of reviews: 0

What is SAS Data Engineering

SAS Data Engineering is a new data management offering on SAS Viya and includes functions for data integration, data quality, cataloging as well as governance for analytical applications. It replaces SAS Data Management in the cloud.

Number of reviews: 0

What is SAS Viya

AI und Analytics platform that provides various services, including data catalogoging, data integration and -quality,, analysis and data science as well as visualization.

Number of reviews: 0

What is SnapLogic Intelligent Integration Platform

Low-/no-code iPaaS solution for the integration of applications and data. Key features include data integration, API management and application integration.

Number of reviews: 0

What is SNP Group SNP Glue

Tool for replication and integration of SAP data in cloud targets, e.g. Google Cloud Storage, Amazon Redshift or S3, Microsoft Azure Synapse and Snowflake.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Starburst Data Starburst Galaxy

SQL-based MPP query engine based on open source technology Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) and Apache Iceberg for analytics on data lakes. Available on-premisies or in the Cloud.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Striim Platform

Tool for real-time data integration and building streaming pipelines for the cloud from on-premise and/or cloud sources. Also available as SaaS service.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Syniti Knowledge Platform

Platform to support data migration, data management and governance with functions for data integration, data cataloging, master data management, data quality, etc.

Number of reviews: 18
Customer Satisfaction
3.1/10
3.1
User Experience
3.5/10
3.5
Technical Foundation
5.9/10
5.9
Business Value
4.2/10
4.2

What is Talend, a Qlik company Data Fabric

Platform for data and application integration with functions for data integration, streaming, data preparation, data quality, data cataloging, data intelligence and API management.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Teradata VantageCloud

Data platform with combinable, different engines to query data for analytical and transactional applications.

Number of reviews: 0

What is Theobald Software Xtract

Component suite for the integration of SAP ERP/BW data in Microsoft environments (SQL Server Integration Services, Reporting Services, SharePoint, PowerPivot) as well as general DB interface and special connectors for Qlik, BOARD, Tableau, Oracle, Teradata, EXASolution.

Number of reviews: 0

What is TIBCO Platform

Real-time, composable data platform containing features for data integration that unifies TIBCO solutions across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments, enabling simplified management, communications and monitoring.

Number of reviews: 0

What is TigerGraph TigerGraph DB

Graph database with functions for exploring relationships between data; also available as a cloud service with TigerGraph Cloud.

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Number of reviews: 0

What is y42

Data engineering platform for the development of across-system data pipelines with functions for ingestion (based on Fivetran and Airbyte), transformation (based on dbt), orchestration and governance.

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