Data Engineering Acquisitions (2022-2026)

Data Engineering Acquisitions (2022-2026)

Last updatedUpdated:<br>Jun 17, 2026

by Simon Späti · CreatedCreated: May 2, 2025 · 9 min read

Consolidation in the Data Engineering market is happening quickly. Tools from the Modern Data Stack get unified into bigger Data Platforms. This note highlights the latest acquisitions across data engineering. It serves as an overview of the latest consolidations.

Find attached the acquisition overview from 2022 to today.

gantt<br>title Data Engineering Acquisitions Timeline 2022-2026<br>dateFormat YYYY-MM<br>axisFormat %b %Y

section Fivetran + dbt<br>dbt → MetricFlow :milestone, 2023-02, 0d<br>dbt → SDF :milestone, 2025-01, 0d<br>Fivetran → Census :milestone, 2025-05, 0d<br>Fivetran → SQLMesh :milestone, 2025-09, 0d<br>Fivetran → dbt :milestone, 2025-10, 0d<br>Fivetran → Great Expectations (Steward) :milestone, 2026-05, 0d

section Databricks<br>Okera :milestone, 2023-05, 0d<br>MosaicML :milestone, 2023-06, 0d<br>Arcion :milestone, 2023-10, 0d<br>Tabular :milestone, 2024-06, 0d<br>Neon :milestone, 2025-05, 0d

section Snowflake<br>Streamlit :milestone, 2022-03, 0d<br>Applica :milestone, 2022-08, 0d<br>SnowConvert :milestone, 2023-01, 0d<br>LeapYear :milestone, 2023-02, 0d<br>Neeva :milestone, 2023-05, 0d<br>TruEra :milestone, 2024-05, 0d<br>Datavolo :milestone, 2024-11, 0d<br>Crunchy Data :milestone, 2025-06, 0d<br>Select Star :milestone, 2025-11, 0d

section IBM + Confluent<br>IBM → Confluent :milestone, 2026-03, 0d<br>Databand.ai :milestone, 2022-06, 0d<br>Immerok :milestone, 2023-01, 0d<br>WarpStream :milestone, 2024-09, 0d

section SAP<br>Dremio :milestone, 2026-05, 0d

section Qlik<br>Talend :milestone, 2023-01, 0d<br>Kyndi :milestone, 2024-01, 0d<br>Upsolver :milestone, 2025-01, 0d

section Data Quality & Observability<br>Bigeye → Data Advantage Group :milestone, 2023-06, 0d<br>Datadog → Metaplane :milestone, 2025-04, 0d<br>Soda → nannyML :milestone, 2025-06, 0d

section Analytics & BI<br>Alteryx → Trifacta :milestone, 2022-01, 0d<br>Hex → Hashboard :milestone, 2025-04, 0d<br>Coalesce.io → CastorDocs :milestone, 2025-03, 0d

section Streaming & Real-time<br>Cloudflare → Arroyo :milestone, 2025-04, 0d<br>Redis → Decodable :milestone, 2025-09, 0d

section Database & Infrastructure<br>NetApp → Instaclustr :milestone, 2022-04, 0d<br>Vector Capital → SingleStore :milestone, 2025-09, 0d

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# Timeline

The timelines show each year&rsquo;s acquisitions, starting in 2022. After that, we discuss related topics such as Bundling vs. Unbundling and the general state of the data engineering ecosystem.

# 2026

2026-05-08: SAP -> Dremio ^44670f

Announcement :

SAP to Acquire Dremio (The transaction is still pending regulatory approval.)

With Dremio, SAP will deliver a universal, Open Catalogs built on Apache Polaris and the open Apache Iceberg REST Catalog API . It serves as both the discovery and semantic layer of SAP Business Data Cloud , giving every connected engine – SAP or non-SAP – a single point of access to unified business context: meaning, relationships, access rights and data lineage. This catalog will form the foundation of the SAP Knowledge Graph , embedding business relationships, organizational hierarchies, regulatory classifications and cross-system lineage as native properties.

2026-05-07 Undisclosed Company -> Great Expectations (Fivetran didn&rsquo;t acquire, but becomes steward of open source community and GX Core project)

Annoucement :

Great Expecations,

Fivetran

GX Core will continue as an open source, community-driven project. Fivetran intends to support ongoing project maintenance, ecosystem integrations, and community engagement.

2026-03-17: IBM -> Confluent^e4f448

Announcement : 2026-03-17:

Finish Acquisition, 2025-12-08:

IBM start to aquire

2026-03-19: Astral (The company behind uv, ruff,

ty) -> OpenAI

Announcement : Astral:

Astral to join OpenAI, OpenAI:

OpenAI to acquire Astral | OpenAI

# 2025

2025-12-16: Matatika -> Meltano (Arch) ^61399b

Announcement :

LinkedIn Post

2025-11-24: Snowflake → Select Star

Announcement :

Select Star Joins Snowflake: A New Chapter for AI + Data Discovery and

Snowflake to Acquire the Select Star Technology to Expand Horizon Catalog’s View of Enterprise Data for Next-Gen AI

2025-11-18: DVC → LakeFS ^c38a54

Announcement :

A Celebration of Shared Vision: lakeFS + DVC

2025-11-04: ClickHouse → LibreChat

Announcement :

ClickHouse welcomes LibreChat

2025-10-13: Fivetran → dbt ^746334

Announcement :

dbt Labs + Fivetran: Open data Infrastructure for analytics and AI | dbt Labs

latest updates at dbt

2025-09-10: Vector Capital Management → SingleStore ^b9f630

Announcement :

SingleStore Announces Growth Buyout Led by Vector Capital

2025-09-04: Redis → Decodable

Announcement :

Redis to acquire Decodable

2025-09-03: Fivetran → SQLMesh

- Announcement :

Acquisition (SQLMesh)

2025-06-13: Soda → nannyML

- Announcement :

Announcement

2025-06-02: Snowflake → Crunchy Data ^193bc3

- Announcement :

Announcement

- Deal Value : Estimated the deal to be worth around...