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A field guide to the data world.

From a database on your laptop to a warehouse in the cloud.
Understand what each tool does, where it fits, and how to use it.

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Datastream

Google Cloud

Managed change data capture for moving changes from supported sources to destinations.

Pipelines & streaming

DBeaver

Database client

A desktop SQL client for connecting to and working with multiple database engines.

Developer tools

dbt

Transformation tool

SQL-based transformations, tests, and documentation for analytical data models.

Pipelines & streaming

Debezium

Change data capture

Connectors that turn database changes into events for downstream consumers.

Pipelines & streaming

Delta Lake

Table format

A table storage layer that adds transactional metadata to analytical data files.

Lakehouses & formats

DuckDB

Analytical database

An analytical SQL database that runs inside your process and queries files directly.

Analytics & warehouses

Elasticsearch

Search engine

A distributed search and analytics engine for text, structured data, and retrieval workloads.

Search engines

Firestore

Google Cloud

A managed document database for application data and supported real-time access patterns.

NoSQL databases

Flyway

Migration tool

A versioned migration workflow for applying database schema changes.

Developer tools

InfluxDB

Time-series database

A database family for timestamped metrics and events; architecture depends on the product generation.

Time-series data

Liquibase

Migration tool

A change-tracking and deployment tool for database schemas.

Developer tools

MariaDB

Database

A relational database with its own development path and a familiar MySQL heritage.

Relational databases

Memcached

Cache

A distributed memory cache for storing short-lived values behind application keys.

Caching & in-memory

Memorystore

Google Cloud

Google Cloud's managed in-memory services, with capabilities depending on the chosen engine.

Caching & in-memory

Metabase

BI tool

A business intelligence interface for questions, dashboards, and data exploration.

Governance & BI

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

An integrated Microsoft analytics platform with warehouse, lakehouse, and data integration workloads.

Analytics & warehouses

Microsoft OneLake

Azure

The logical data lake underlying Microsoft Fabric workloads.

Lakehouses & formats

Microsoft Purview

Azure

Microsoft's data governance, cataloging, and information protection capabilities.

Governance & BI
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