Microsoft's Azure Data Catalog is an enterprise-wide metadata catalog designed to make data asset discovery straightforward, a fully-managed service that lets analysts. data scientists, and developers to register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume data sources.
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data.world
Score 8.0 out of 10
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data.world in Austin offers their metadata management solution, an enterprise data catalog, allowing users to create reusable, extensible data and analysis. Capture context and knowledge as teams work, so it’s easy to understand, check, and build on what they produce.
Azure Data Catalog has helped our data governance and BI efforts. It's an enterprise-level data dictionary that grows with our data ecosystem. We build cloud-native apps with data management tools. And we get insights quickly and with less overhead, and the drag-and-drop interface is one of the best parts of it. Drag-and-drop is easy so that we can deliver quickly. Visual effects make it more flexible. One thing to note is that working on it requires some skill to maintain the integrity of all the components. Another improvement would be lowering the licensing cost.
It's a very user-friendly platform for those familiar with database concepts and SQL. Documentation is extensive but for those with no prior knowledge it can be daunting. The lack of ability to organize queries and datasets by category can also be frustrating and sometimes difficult to navigate.
To create cloud-native applications, we rely on Azure Data Catalog for data management. I believe it was better suited to our organization and maturity level regarding costs and onboarding procedures. We can get insights quickly and with less work. Familiarity also played a role in our choice. In general, I believe this product is worthwhile. But the IT environment in which it will be deployed will impact this. Therefore, compared to other tools on the market, Azure Data Catalog is the best option.
