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Self-hosted / open sourceData Governance & MDMHeadquarters: US

Marquez: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Marquez is an open-source metadata server that collects, stores and visualises lineage metadata through OpenLineage. It is the reference implementation of OpenLineage. Data platform teams send metadata from running jobs to its OpenLineage-compatible endpoint and use the web interface to view a graph of dependencies between datasets and jobs, with execution details and performance metrics. Its lineage API supports tasks such as backfills and root-cause analysis. Integrations exist for Apache Airflow, Spark, Flink, dbt and Dagster. You run Marquez yourself, with Docker, with the included Helm chart on Kubernetes, or from source (Java 17 and PostgreSQL 14).

WeWork released Marquez as open source; it is now a graduated project of the LF AI & Data Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, a non-profit based in the United States. The code is licensed under Apache 2.0. Because you host it yourself, metadata and lineage stay in your own environment. By default the API has no authentication or authorisation, so you need to put these in place yourself.

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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 4, 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
Websitemarquezproject.ai ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Marquez

The European alternatives to Marquez 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 Marquez

Marquez 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 Marquez scores best on data residency.

Marquez 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 Marquez 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 Marquez?

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

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

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

Marquez 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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