Data Catalog Tools Benchmark
Data Catalog Tools Benchmark

Data Catalog Tools Benchmark

More data, more tools, more people = more data catalogs

Companies are deploying their analytics to more people in the company. Now, regardless of data literacy, most departments of large companies are using data. For that reason, there's a need to improve trust and understanding in data resources and infrastructure.

This explains the recent explosion in the past five years of data catalogs (internal, open-source, and SaaS). This new trend is not going to stop, and we'd rather bring visibility and structure soon.

At Coalesce Catalog, we believe the first step to structure the data catalog market, is more transparency. For that reason, we put up a list of all the catalog tools we heard of.

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This list is still exploratory and may contain errors. Please reach out to us, if you notice anything wrong: xavier.deboisredon@coalesce.io
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In-depth analysis and evolution Read the full breakdown by generation and market analysis of data catalogs here
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Feature definition

**This is an attempt at classifying the tools on the market. If anything seems wrong, the feature list seems off, or if you don't see your data catalog and want to have it placed, please reach out: xavier.deboisredon@coalesce.io

Data Catalog Tools Benchmark

Feature
Classification
Collibra
Alation
Atlan
Coalesce Catalog
Informatica
Data World
Dataedo
OvalEdge
Purview
Octopai
Acryl
Secoda
Select Star
Metaphor
Role-Based Access Controls
Data Governance
Metadata Analytics
Data Governance
Metadata Bulk Edit
Data Governance
Automated PII tagging
Data Governance
Advanced Tag Management
Data Governance
Policy and Workflow
Data Governance
Multi-Tenant Infrastructure
Data Governance
Social Data Discovery
Data Discovery
Advanced Search Filtering
Data Discovery
Table Popularity & Frequent Users
Data Discovery
Column Lineage
Data Lineage
Cross Platform Lineage (ETL → Data Warehouse → BI tools)
Data Lineage
Definition Propagation
Data Lineage
Personalized Views
User Experience
Chrome Extension
User Experience
Rich Text
User Experience
SQL Editor
User Experience
Two-Way Sync
Integrations
Slack Integration
Integrations
API Based Ingestion
Integrations
On Premise Metadata Extractor
Integrations
Data Quality Integration
Integrations
Natural Language Search
AI features
AI Documentation
AI features
AI for SQL
AI features
AI Assistant
AI features
Business Glossary
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Map
Knowledge Management

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Data Catalog RFI template:

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F.A.Q

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