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Deequ: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Deequ is an open-source library, built on Apache Spark, for defining unit tests for data and measuring data quality in large datasets. Users declare checks such as completeness, uniqueness, value sets and quantile thresholds; Deequ computes metrics with Spark jobs and evaluates the assertions against them. It also supports data profiling, constraint suggestion, incremental metrics, metric persistence and anomaly detection on quality metrics over time. The library is written in Scala, with Java examples, and is added to a Spark project as a Maven or sbt dependency; a separate project, PyDeequ, offers a Python interface.

Deequ is published under the Apache License 2.0 in the awslabs GitHub organisation, which is run by Amazon Web Services, a US company. It is a library rather than a hosted service: it runs inside the Spark environment you operate, so where data is processed depends on that environment. Because the code is open, a European organisation can inspect it, fork it and run it on infrastructure in its own jurisdiction.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-675
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryData Governance & MDM
TypeProduct
Websitegithub.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Deequ

The European alternatives to Deequ 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 Deequ

Deequ 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Deequ scores best on data residency.

Deequ is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Deequ together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Deequ?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Deequ include Accutics, BiG EVAL and CluedIn. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Deequ?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Deequ include Data Contract CLI. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Deequ is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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