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Non-EU vendorData Platform & WarehouseHeadquarters: US

Yellowbrick: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Yellowbrick is a SQL data platform for enterprise data warehousing, streaming and ad-hoc analytics, and business intelligence and AI workloads. It is developed by Yellowbrick Data, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. The software uses a Kubernetes-based architecture and can run in public clouds, private clouds, data centres, on laptops and at the edge, so an organisation can choose where its workloads run.

Yellowbrick Data is a US company, and the vendor's public pages name no parent company, so US jurisdiction over the vendor is the main sovereignty question for any vendor-operated service. According to the vendor, data stays under the customer's control, in its own cloud account or data centre. The vendor's public pages name no EU hosting region and do not state an open-source licence. A European organisation that runs Yellowbrick in its own EU infrastructure keeps control over where data resides, but should confirm the licence and processing terms before deployment.

Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (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

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Yellowbrick

The European alternatives to Yellowbrick come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Yellowbrick

Yellowbrick 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.

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

Yellowbrick 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.

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

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Yellowbrick include DuckDB, Exasol and Falkor. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Yellowbrick?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Yellowbrick include DuckDB, Garage and MonetDB. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Yellowbrick is headquartered in US and hosts data in 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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Compliance evidence

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