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Dataiku: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Dataiku is an enterprise platform for building, deploying and governing analytics, machine learning and AI agents. It describes itself as an orchestration layer above existing data platforms, cloud infrastructure and AI services, connecting to sources such as Snowflake and Databricks. According to its documentation, it runs in the cloud on AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, including in the customer's own cloud tenant, where Dataiku states it has no access to the data.

Dataiku was founded in Paris in 2013, but according to public sources its headquarters is in New York City, which places the main company under US jurisdiction. It is privately held, with US and European venture investors. Where data resides depends on the deployment: in a customer-controlled cloud tenant the customer chooses the region, including EU regions. A European organisation should confirm which entity signs the contract and where Dataiku-hosted offerings process data.

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Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

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Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, USVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryAI
TypeProduct
Websitedataiku.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Dataiku

The European alternatives to Dataiku come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Dataiku

Dataiku is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Dataiku hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Dataiku is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Dataiku?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Dataiku include Aleph Alpha, Almato and Almawave. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Dataiku?

Our list of EU alternatives to Dataiku is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Dataiku GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Dataiku is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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