Databaas

How we built a data platform on European clouds (OVH, Scaleway, STACKIT) with open source tooling

Operating in community / reddit / buyfromeu based in Europe, Databaas operates.

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**Disclosure: I am one of the founders of Databaas, and the write-up is on our company blog.** I am posting it because the tooling breakdown is useful whether or not you ever talk to us.

**The starting point:** if you want your company data on European infrastructure under European jurisdiction, the four platforms everyone actually uses are not available to you.

Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery and Fabric only deploy on AWS, Azure or GCP. BigQuery and Fabric will not even leave their home cloud. "Sovereign regions" do not fix this, because the control plane is still operated by a US company. Microsoft has admitted as much in front of the French senate.

So we built the alternative out of open source parts, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The write-up covers the whole thing, but the short version:

**Clouds:** We signed up at OVHcloud, Scaleway, Hetzner and STACKIT and deployed real infrast

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The company is recorded as being based in Europe.

Website: databaas.eu