EU Sovereignty Score
Self-hosted / open sourceData Governance & MDMHeadquarters: France

Data Recycling: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Data Recycling is an operational data governance platform from Systnaps SAS, a French software company in Le Perreux-sur-Marne. For business objects such as contracts, invoices or customer files it builds an operational model that links the object to its data, rules, uses and actions. This lets organisations control data lifecycle, quality, retention and evidence during data transformations and AI projects. According to the vendor, a large set of native connectors is available. The platform is deployed in a sovereign cloud or on-premise, supported by advisory services from Systnaps.

Systnaps is headquartered in France, and its website names no foreign parent. The vendor positions French sovereignty as a starting point and offers an on-premise variant, so sensitive data can remain inside your own infrastructure. The website does not name the data centre location of the cloud variant; ask for it, together with the data processing agreement. For European organisations avoiding a US catalogue vendor, it is worth testing how far the platform reaches across your own applications and source types.

Sovereignty score
80 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-680
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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 17, 2026
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FranceVerified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in the EU (your choice)Verified by hand
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NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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European alternatives to Data Recycling

The European alternatives to Data Recycling come from our knowledge base of over 9,900 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 Data Recycling

Data Recycling is headquartered in France and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data Recycling runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Data Recycling is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Data Recycling 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 Data Recycling?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Data Recycling include Accutics, Amnesia and Anjana Data. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Data Recycling?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Data Recycling include Amnesia, ARX Data Anonymization Tool and Data Contract CLI. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Data Recycling is headquartered in France (EU) and hosts data in the EU. That makes Data Recycling an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

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