Discover the best 14 data quality tools that integrate with Apache Spark.
By Ari Bajo - Data Engineer turned Writer.
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All 36 data quality, data testing, and data observability tools.
Data trust platform with data quality evaluation rules, anomaly detection, data lineage, a data catalog, and master data management.
Best for organizations looking to scale data management initiatives with enterprise master data management, data quality, and data governance.
Leading data observability platform with data monitors, anomaly detection, customizable data quality dashboards, and column-level lineage.
Best for data teams with a big budget looking for a mature and customizable data observability platform that also offers AI observability.
Automated data quality monitoring platform with UI-based anomaly detection tests for structured and unstructured data.
Best for data teams looking for a specialized data quality monitoring tool that integrates with specialized and cloud-native data catalog tools.
Open-source data quality platform with 150+ Jinja2 SQL-based checks configurable via YAML or a local web UI, data lineage, and incident management. DQOps Cloud adds cloud storage for quality results, hosted Looker Studio dashboards, and team collaboration.
Best for data teams looking for a highly customizable open-source data quality check library with a local web UI and Looker Studio dashboard integrations. DQOps Cloud adds shared dashboards and multi-user collaboration without managing your own infrastructure.
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Managed data quality platform with built-in metrics to write data contracts (using YAML, UI, or AI), anomaly detection and AI agents to clean data.
Best for data teams looking to embed tests at every pipeline stage, collaborate with business users to quarantine and fix bad data, and integrate with data enterprise catalogs.
Open-source Python library and CLI to write and run data contracts in YAML using SodaCL with integrations for data warehouses, databases and query engines.
Best for data engineering teams looking for a YAML-based OSS data testing library that embeds directly in pipelines and CI/CD workflows.
Unified data trust platform with data monitoring, pipeline monitoring, a data catalog, column-level lineage, and data access control.
Best for data teams looking to combine data observability, a data catalog, and data governance in the same tool.
Open-source Python library with 50+ declarative expectations to validate data in files, SQL databases, data warehouses, and in-memory DataFrames.
Best for data engineering teams looking for a code-first OSS data testing library with a large built-in expectation library and Python extensibility.
Unified data quality and observability platform with anomaly detection, data quality checks, end-to-end data lineage, and pipeline observability.
Best for enterprises looking for unified data quality and observability that integrates with modern data catalogs and issue management tools.
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Data pipeline and data warehouse monitoring platform with data pipeline job monitors, schema change monitors, custom SQL monitors, alerts, and task-based data lineage.
Best for data teams looking for end-to-end ETL pipeline monitoring with tasks that span across dbt, Airlfow, Azure Data Factory, Spark, IBM DataStage, and IBM Watsonx Data.
Agentic data observability and FinOps platform for the cloud with integrations with external data quality checks, cost optimization, incident management, and resolution.
Best for data and infrastructure teams that want to combine data quality results with costs and performance insights into one platform with optimization recommendations.
Shift left data platform with data contracts, static code analysis, and CI/CD integrations.
Best for data operations teams looking to prevent bad data during CI/CD in database tables, files, Kafka topics, or Protobuf messages.
Managed data quality platform built on the open-source Deequ framework with data quality rulesets, scheduling, data quality dashboards, and anomaly detection.
Best for data teams using the AWS Glue Data Catalog and AWS Glue ETL jobs that want to monitor data quality at rest and in transit, with the possibility to quarantine data.
Data quality framework for Apache Spark with data quality rule generation from profiling results, YAML and Python-based data validation checks, and a data quality dashboard.
Best for Databricks users looking to validate PySpark DataFrames and Tables across Spark Core, Spark Structured Streaming, and Lakeflow Pipelines / DLT.
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