This repository contains a curated list of awesome data catalogs and observability platforms that help you discover, manage, and observe data in your organization.
Tool | Specification -Based | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observ- ability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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Alation | β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β |
Amundsen | β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
Ataccama | β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β |
Atlan | β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | βοΈ |
Atlas | β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
Azure DC | β | βοΈ | ? | βοΈ | β | β | ? | β | β | β | β |
CKAN | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β | β | β |
Collibra | β | βοΈ | ? | βοΈ | β | β | ? | β | β | β | β |
DataGalaxy | β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | β | βοΈ | βοΈ | ? | ? |
Databand | β | ? | ? | ? | β | ? | ? | ? | βοΈ | β | β |
Datafold | β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β |
DataHub | βοΈ details | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
Google DC | β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | ? | β | β | β | β |
Informatica | β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | ? | β |
Magda | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β | β | β |
Marquez | OpenLineage | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | ? | β | β | β | β | βοΈ | β |
Monte Carlo | β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β |
Select Star | β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | ? | ? |
OpenDataDiscovery | ODD Specification | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β |
OpenMetadata | JSON Schema | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | βοΈ |
Stemma | β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | ? | β | β | β | β |
Talend | β | βοΈ | ? | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β |
Definitions:
- Specification-based - uses an open standard for collecting metadata to allow efficient time-to-discovery and federating data catalogs
- Search-based - allows to search for data assets
- Network-based - provides rich context about data asset ownership
- Lineage-based - provides lineage for all entities the solution operates
- Federation - the ability to map multiple data catalogs into a single UI to avoid repeated data collection.
- ML 1st citizen - operates ML entities on a high level - you can use them as any other data assets.
- Data Quality - includes mature data quality assurance tools.
- End-to-end lineage - data lineage that includes all data assets used in the organization across all its data catalogs and ML tools.
- Column-level lineage - data lineage with column level granularity
- Data collaboration - provides possibility to bring together data from various internal and external sources to unlock combined data insights
A popular open-source data catalog for metadata management and data discovery originated from Lyft.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: No
- AI autowiring: No
- Rich data profiling: No
- Recommendations: Yes
- Schemas, Description: Yes
- Complex schemas: No
- Data preview: Yes
- Column statistics: Yes
- Data owner: Yes
- Top data users: Yes
- Change notifications:No
- Change feed: No
- Deployment:
- Supported data sources: Hive, Redshift, Druid, RDBMS, Presto, Snowflake
DataHub is an open-source data catalog enabling data discovery, data observability and federated governance that originated from LinkedIn and is commercially offered by Acryl Data as a cloud-hosted SaaS offering.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability |
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βοΈ details | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push, Pull
- Customizable metadata model: Yes. The metadata model can be declared using the open-source Pegasus language, and is interoperable with JSONSchema and Avro
- Rich data profiling: Yes
- Recommendations: Yes
- Schemas, Description: Yes
- Complex schemas: Yes
- Data preview: Yes
- Column statistics: Yes
- Data owner: Yes
- Top data users: Yes
- Lineage impact analysis: Yes
- Change notifications: Yes
- Change feed: No
- Automation: Yes
- UX personalization: No
- Deployment: docker-compose / Kubernetes with Helm, or using Acryl Data's SaaS offering
- Supported data sources:
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Redshift
- Hive
- Athena
- Postgres
- MySQL
- SQL server
- Trino
- Delta Lake
- S3
- Looker
- PowerBI
- Tableau
- Mode
- Metabase
- Redash
- Superset
- Airflow
- Great Expectation
- dbt
- Feast
- SageMaker
- Glue
- Kafka
- Nifi
- Okta
- LDAP
- Slack
- There's 50+ integrations - see the docs for the latest.
Marquez is an open-source data catalog for collection, aggregation, and visualization of a data ecosystemβs metadata originated from WeWork.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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OpenLineage | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | ? | β | β | β | β | βοΈ | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: No
- AI autowiring: No
- Rich data profiling: No
- Recommendations: No
- Schemas, Description: Yes
- Complex schemas: No
- Data preview: Yes
- Column statistics: No
- Data owner: Yes
- Top data users: ?
- Change notifications: No
- Change feed: No
- Deployment:
- Supported data sources: S3, Kafka
Apache Atlas is an open-source data catalog for metadata collection, governance, and data democratization.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: No
- AI autowiring: No
- Rich data profiling: No
- Recommendations: No
- Schemas, Description: Yes
- Complex schemas: No
- Data preview: No
- Column statistics: No
- Data owner: No
- Top data users: ?
- Change notifications: Yes
- Change feed: No
- Deployment:
- Supported data sources:HBase, Hive, Sqoop, Kafka, Storm
CKAN is an open-source data catalog for data management, powering data portals for govenments and enterprises.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: No
- AI autowiring: No
- Rich data profiling: No
- Recommendations: ?
- Schemas, Description: ?
- Complex schemas: ?
- Data preview: ?
- Column statistics: ?
- Data owner: ?
- Top data users: ?
- Change notifications: ?
- Change feed: ?
- Deployment:
- Supported data sources:
Magda is an open-source data catalog that features data discovery, metadata enrichment, and federation, focused on geodata.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push via UI
- UX personalization: No
- AI autowiring: No
- Rich data profiling: No
- Recommendations: No
- Schemas, Description: Yes
- Complex schemas: No
- Data preview: Yes
- Column statistics: No
- Data owner: Yes
- Top data users: ?
- Change notifications: No
- Change feed: No
- Deployment:
- Supported data sources: Mostly geodata
First open-source data discovery and observability platform. ODD Platform is based on ODD Specification.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push/Pull
- UX personalization: No
- Rich data profiling: Yes
- Data collaboration: Yes
- Schemas, Description: Yes
- Complex schemas: Yes
- Data preview: Yes
- Column statistics: Yes
- Data owner: Yes
- Change notifications: Yes
- Change feed: Yes
- Metadata versioning: Yes
- SaaS: Yes
- Third-party integrations: Dbt, Great Expectations, and Prefect
- Supported data sources: Airflow, Athena, AzureSQL, BigQuery, Clickhouse, Databricks, DeltaLake, Druid, DynamoDB, Fivetran, Glue, Hive, Kafka, Looker, MariaDB, MlFlow, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Presto, Redash, Redpanda, Redshift, Snowflake, Tableau, and Vertica
OpenMetadata is the all-in-one platform for data collaboration, discovery, governance, lineage, and quality that lets you focus on building and analyzing.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | βοΈ |
More features
- Strategy: Push/Pull
- UX personalization: No
- Rich data profiling: Yes
- Data collaboration: Yes
- Schemas, Description: Yes
- Complex schemas: Yes
- Data preview: Yes
- Column statistics: Yes
- Data owner: Yes
- Change notifications: Yes
- Change feed: Yes
- Metadata versioning: Yes
- SaaS: Yes
- Third-party integrations: Dbt, Great Expectations, and Prefect
- Supported data sources: Airbyte, Airflow, Athena, AzureSQL, BigQuery, Clickhouse, Dagster, Databricks, DB2, DeltaLake, Druid, DynamoDB, Fivetran, Glue, Glue, Hive, Kafka, Looker, MariaDB, Metabase, MlFlow, Mode, MSSQL, MySQL, NiFi, Oracle, Postgres, PowerBI, Presto, Redash, Redpanda, Redshift, Salesforce, SingleStore, Snowflake, Superset, Tableau, Trino, and Vertica
Collibra is an enterprise data catalog that helps to discover and understand data that matters and drive impactful insights from it.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | ? | βοΈ | β | β | ? | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: Yes
- AI autowiring: ?
- Network-based: No
- Rich data profiling: ?
- Supported data sources:
Informatica is an enterprise data catalog that provides AI-powered data discovery engine to scan and catalog data assets.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | ? | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: ?
- AI autowiring: ?
- Network-based: Yes
- Rich data profiling: Yes
- Supported data sources:
Alation is a collaborative data catalog that helps companies to drive value and business impact from their data.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: Yes
- AI autowiring: No
- Network-based: No
- Rich data profiling: No
- Supported data sources:
Atlan is a modern data catalog offering data discovery, data profiling, data quality, data lineage and data governance.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | βοΈ |
More features
- Strategy: Pull
- UX personalization: ?
- AI autowiring: ?
- Network-based: No
- Rich data profiling: ?
- Supported data sources: Presto, Deequ, Atlas, Airflow, Hudi
DataGalaxy is a modern data catalog offering data discovery, data profiling, data quality, data lineage and data governance.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | β | βοΈ | βοΈ | ? | ? |
More features
- Strategy: Pull & Push
- UX personalization: Yes
- AI autowiring: Yes
- Network-based: Yes
- Rich data profiling: Yes
- Supported data sources: [Available connectors](https://www.datagalaxy.com/fr/integrations-connecteurs/)
Stemma is a fully managed data catalog powered by the open-source data catalog Amundsen that helps data teams have total trust in their data.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | ? | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: No
- AI autowiring: No
- Network-based: No
- Rich data profiling: No
- Supported data sources:
Talend is a data catalog that helps enterprises power critical business descisions with trusted data.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | ? | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: Yes
- AI autowiring: ?
- Network-based: ?
- Rich data profiling: Yes
- Supported data sources:
Select Star is an intelligent data discovery platform that automatically analyzes and documents your data. Select Star provides an easy to use data portal that everyone can use to find and understand data.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | ? | ? |
More features
- Strategy: Pull
- UX personalization: No
- AI autowiring: Yes
- Network-based: Yes
- Rich data profiling: No
- ER Diagram generation: Yes
- Popularity & usage: Yes
- Description suggestion: Yes
- Tag propagation: Yes
- Data preview: Yes
- Data owners: Yes
- Top data users: Yes
- Supported data sources:
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Redshift
- Postgres
- Looker
- PowerBI
- Tableau
- Mode
- Sigma
- Sisense
- Metabase
- DBT Cloud
- DBT Core
- Slack
Google Cloud Data Catalog is a fully managed, scalable metadata management service in Google Cloud's Data Analytics family of products.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | ? | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Pull
- UX personalization: ?
- AI autowiring: ?
- Network-based: No
- Rich data profiling: No
- Supported data sources:
Azure Data Catalog is a fully managed, enterprise-wide metadata catalog that makes data asset discovery straightforward.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | ? | βοΈ | β | β | ? | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Pull
- UX personalization: ?
- AI autowiring: ?
- Network-based: ?
- Rich data profiling: ?
- Supported data sources:
Monte Carlo is a data observability tool that helps to increase trust in data by eliminating or preventing data downtime.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Pull
- UX personalization: ?
- AI autowiring: ?
- Network-based: ?
- Rich data profiling: ?
- Supported data sources: Snowflake, Hive, Kafka, Looker, Redshift, Tableau, Big Query, Airflow, Fivetran, Presto, Mode, Periscope, Databricks, Glue, dbt, Chartio, Spark, AWS, S3, data.world, Google Cloud Platform
Databand is an observability platform that helps data engineers identify and troubleshoot pipeline issues and data quality problems.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | ? | ? | ? | β | ? | ? | ? | βοΈ | ? | ? |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: ?
- AI autowiring: ?
- Network-based: ?
- Rich data profiling: ?
- Supported data sources:
Datafold is a data monitoring and observability platform that gives you confidence in your data quality through diffs, profiling, and anomaly detection.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | βοΈ | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | ? | ? |
More features
- Strategy: Push
- UX personalization: ?
- AI autowiring: ?
- Network-based: ?
- Rich data profiling: ?
- Supported data sources:
Ataccama is an enterprise data catalog and observability tool featuring data profiling and data quality management, designed for data professionals.
Based on Open Standard | Search-based | Network-based | Lineage-based | Federation | ML 1st Citizen | Data Quality | End-to-end Lineage | Observability | Column-level lineage | Data collaboration |
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β | βοΈ | β | βοΈ | β | β | βοΈ | β | β | β | β |
More features
- Strategy: Pull
- UX personalization: Yes
- AI autowiring: No
- Network-based: No
- Rich data profiling: Yes
- Supported data sources: