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Self-hosted / open sourceData Governance & MDMHeadquarters: IL

Elementary Data: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Elementary Data is a data observability and data quality platform for teams working with dbt. It monitors pipelines, runs data tests, detects anomalies and helps triage incidents. The company offers Elementary OSS, an open-source CLI and dbt package under the Apache-2.0 licence, alongside the commercial Elementary Cloud and AI agents for test creation and incident triage. Engineers are the main users. Elementary Cloud is a vendor-operated hosted product.

According to the company's careers page, Elementary Data is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, and it was founded in August 2021. Its legal entity is not stated on the vendor's public pages. Israel is outside the EU and the EEA, so transfers of personal data from Europe fall under the GDPR's transfer rules, which the data processing agreement should address. The company links to a data processing agreement, but the vendor's public pages do not state where customer data is hosted. European organisations should ask for hosting locations and sub-processors, or use the open-source core where the data stays in their own environment.

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Sovereignty score
77 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (IL)
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
  • 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-665
    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 11, 2026
HeadquartersIL (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionYes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingOTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryData Governance & MDM
TypeProduct
Websiteelementary-data.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Elementary Data

The European alternatives to Elementary Data 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 Elementary Data

Elementary Data is headquartered in IL, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Elementary Data hosts data outside the EU (OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Elementary Data 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 Elementary Data 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 Elementary Data?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Elementary Data 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 Elementary Data?

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

Is Elementary Data GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Elementary Data is headquartered in IL (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. 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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Compliance evidence

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