Google Data Catalog is a fully managed and scalable metadata management service that allows organizations to quickly discover, manage and understand all their data in Google Cloud.

A fully managed and highly scalable data discovery and metadata management service.

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is the world's largest music streaming service provider

Developer of dating applications. The company develops dating application "Pairs" that offers dating cum marriage matching application where users can search for profiles based on the interest, hobbies, etc, and claims to get matched with partner of their preference for a marriage relationship

Dotz Inc. is a robust technology company with extensive consumer knowledge, which brings together technology, data, loyalty, marketplace and techfin in its business model, being the pioneer company in the loyalty market in Brazil through the Dotz program.

World's largest Beauty company, inventing the future of Beauty while transforming to #1 BeautyTech company of the future

Provider of software development services

Apache Kafka is a distributed commit log for fast, fault-tolerant communication between producers and consumers using message based topics.

Flipkart is an Indian e-commerce company, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, and incorporated in Singapore as a private limited company.

Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information on the internet using images and, on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboards

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top content platform and production company headquartered in Los Gatos, California. Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. 

Simply Business is a business insurance broker that offers tailored business insurance quotes to its clients.


Uber Technologies, Inc., commonly known as Uber, is an American technology company. Its services include ride-hailing, food delivery, package delivery, couriers, freight transportation, and, through a partnership with Lime, electric bicycle and motorized scooter rental.

Swiggy is India's largest online food ordering and delivery platform, founded in July 2014. Swiggy is based in Bangalore, India, and as of March 2019, was operating in 100 Indian cities. In early 2019, Swiggy expanded into general product deliveries under the name Swiggy Stores

Fetch Rewards is a discount App for grocery shopping. The platform offers a cashback and gift card earning app that rewards purchases. The users can snap pictures of the receipts or submit e-receipts using the receipt scanner and earn the gift cards and reward points. The users can redeem the rewards on popular stores, including Target, Amazon, Walmart, and more. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms

QuintoAndar is an online brokerage firm for rental properties. The platform enables property seekers to specify a location and obtain a list of registered properties. Once a property is shortlisted user can schedule visits and book it via the platform. For the property owners, the company provides assistance in renting the property from taking professional photographs to closing the deal. 

1mg is an online platform that provides medical diagnostics, consultation, lab tests, and general healthcare.

Instacart is an American company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada. The company offers its services via a website and mobile app. The service allows customers to order groceries from participating retailers with the shopping being done by a personal shopper.

LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is mainly used for professional networking, and allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs

Slack is a proprietary business communication platform developed by American software company Slack Technologies and owned by Salesforce from 2021. Slack offers many IRC-style features, including persistent chat rooms organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. 

Cloud-based marketing platform for e-tailers


Lyft, Inc. develops, markets, and operates a mobile app, offering vehicles for hire, motorized scooters, a bicycle-sharing system, and food delivery. The company is based in San Francisco, California and operates in 644 cities in the United States and 12 cities in Canada

Pluralsight provides an online platform for programming courses. The products include assessments, analytics, role customization, professional services, and more. 

Convoy offers an app-based marketplace connecting truckers. The platform connects carriers and shippers for on-demand freight services. Its features include instant quotations and online booking, automated loading suggestions, bidding, online payments, viewing of shippers, and facility details on loads. The app is available on the Android & iOS platforms. Its clients include Unilever, P&G, and Waiakea, and more.

Affirm modern technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry. They focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products.


Twilio powers the future of business communications. Enabling phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software.



ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented OLAP database management system that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time. Its technology works 100-1000x faster than traditional database management systems, and processes hundreds of millions to over a billion rows and tens of gigabytes of data per server per second. With a widespread user base around the globe, the technology has received praise for its reliability, ease of use, and fault tolerance. 

Contentful helps digital teams assemble content and deliver experiences, faster. Open and flexible content platform adapts to how digital builders work to meet business goals through easy customization and deep integration with any tech stack. Digital teams can reuse and automate content across devices and channels, so they can worry less about content maintenance and more about their customers.

CircleUp is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs with the funding and support that they need to thrive. having identified over a hundred successful brands, we use our helio business intelligence platform to increase the speed, quality and objectivity of decision-making in the private company landscape through a unique application of data and machine learning technology.

infoprice is a technology and data company focused on pricing and dynamic pricing for retail

We help companies generate value and build products with big data and AI. We bring innovation from pioneers of Big Data and AI to other aspiring companies.
To enable them solve data based use cases we build data & ML platforms with them.

Checkr powers people infrastructure for the future of work. With artificial intelligence and machine learning, our solutions make background checks faster, easier, and more compliant.

blablacar is the world’s leading community-based travel network enabling over 100 million members to share a ride across 22 markets.

a one-stop data solution to collect, store, analyze & activate big data

Automatad, inc. is a digital media products co. that provides a suite of programmatic monetization solutions that drives efficiency and superior monetization at scale. using our platform digital publishers can create, monetize, and optimize for the best ad experience. 

PingCAP is the company behind TiDB, an open-source, distributed, NewSQL database that supports hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform, complete with offerings that excite fans and maximize the reach and presence for partners across the entire sports ecosystem.  We operate more than 300 online and offline stores including e-commerce business with all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA), major media brands (NBC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports) and over 300+ collegiate and professional team properties.

JMAN Group is a technology-enabled management consultancy that works across a large number of sectors, with a particular focus on the Private Equity & Investor communities. They engage with many different companies and types of organisations – from big to small, established to start-up, large-cap to high-growth funds. In so doing, JMAN Group focuses on providing simple and actionable solutions, however complex the problem.

metarouter is the leading server-side data integration platform. metarouter is built for performance, compliance, and control.

chongtechnologies "data driven company by design" is an engineering & data science & artificial intelligence consultancy. we started in 2019 as a small group of people united by a broad vision of transforming the data industry, which empowers companies to transform data into information for decision making and improve the performance of their business and thus acquire competitive strategic advantages in relation to competition.

in addition, we position ourselves as an integrator of solutions and services capable of supporting the entire data driven journey of companies through consulting services and strategic partnerships with the main products on the market. in this way, we are able to support our customers from infrastructure, through culture to value delivery through advanced analytics.

we streamline the way companies manage, analyze and exchange high volumes of information/events, in real-time, providing data from multiple sources to countless destinations at the right time.

large companies are already using real-time data streaming to boost their business. what is the path you plan to take? the one about digital transformation, right? come with us .

Lyska is a professional service provider for Data integration & -management. We're building and running centralized modern data management systems for Commerce SMBs, mostly in the German-speaking area.

Our purpose is to transform the paths of people and businesses, making growth easier with intelligence.

BukuWarung is a startup focused on building bookkeeping, digital payments, and e-commerce solutions for MSMEs in Indonesia.

Ready to turn your real-time data into actions?

Timeplus is a high-performance converged platform that unifies streaming and historical data processing to empower developers to build powerful and reliable streaming analytics applications, at speed and scale, anywhere. 

data science consultancy in south east asia building ai & data platforms to solve high impact problems

gamechanger is a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in new york city, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today

The Stackable Data Platform is designed with openness and flexibility in mind. It provides you with a curated selection of the best open source data apps like Apache Kafka®, Apache Druid, Trino and Apache Spark™. Stackable is your modern, open source data tool distribution enabling you to build your ideal data stack.

Adevinta is an online marketplace for second-hand goods. The company offers pre-owned mobiles, furniture, vehicles, job, real estate, cars, consumer goods, and more.

Overview	Google Data Catalog	Apache Kafka
Categories	Data Cataloging	Data Streaming
Stage	Mid Stage	Late Stage
Target Segment	Enterprise	Enterprise, Mid size
Deployment	SaaS	On Prem
Business Model	Commercial	Open Source
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Location	US	US
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