17.5
HPCC Systems is a free, open-source platform for enterprise big-data processing and data-lake management.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPIExtension
Best Data Lake Software in 2026
Data lake software helps you bring data together for storage, management, and analysis. These 17 options are ranked, with comparison points spanning how data arrives and is queried, how it is shared, and how metadata and governance are handled. Deployment model, open table formats, and the availability of a free plan can help narrow the choices to fit your environment and budget; paid starting prices provide another…
27.2
Apache Hadoop HDFS is a free, open-source distributed file system for high-throughput access to large application data sets on commodity hardware.
Free planOpen sourceAPILinuxSelf-hosted
37.2
WebAPILinux
- 4
Parseable
Parseable is an open observability platform for logs, metrics, and distributed traces.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.0From $0.39 a month - 5
Qubole
Qubole is a cloud data lake platform for data engineering, data management, streaming analysis, machine learning, data exploration, and ad-hoc analytics.
WebAPI6.3 - 6
Oracle Big Data Service
Oracle Big Data Service is a managed cloud service for creating Hadoop-based data lakes that process large amounts of data.
WebAPILinux6.2 - 7
Apache Ozone
Apache Ozone is a free, self-hosted distributed object store for data lakes, lakehouse workloads, AI/ML, cloud-native applications, and Hadoop or Spark storage.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 8
AWS Lake Formation
Free planWebAPI6.1Free plan - 9
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric brings data from on-premises systems, multiple clouds, and edge deployments into one logical data store.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted5.8 - 10
Unilake
Unilake is an open-source data analytics platform that brings data integration, governance, modeling, sharing, and analytics together for data and AI workloads.
WebAPISelf-hosted5.8 - 11
lakeFS
lakeFS provides version control and governed access for petabyte-scale multimodal data, recording changes for auditability.
WebAPISelf-hosted5.7 - 12
Cloudera Data Lake Service
Cloudera Data Lake Service provides data governance, metadata, access controls, and auditing capabilities for data lake workloads.
WebAPI5.6 - 13
Tencent Cloud GooseFS
Tencent Cloud GooseFS is a distributed caching and data acceleration service for storage access in data analysis, machine learning, and AI workloads.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted5.6 - 14
5.5 - 15
Tencent Cloud Data Lake Compute (DLC)
Tencent Cloud Data Lake Compute (DLC) is a cloud service for querying data through shared or dedicated engines.
Web4.9 - 164.7
- 174.7
- 184.6
- 194.6