data.world Data Catalog

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Cloud-native data catalog for discovery, governance, and lineage

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At a glance

• Editor score
  Not yet scored
• Pricing
  Pricing on request
• Best for
  Catalog-led lineage and discovery
• Column-level lineage
  Yes
• Founded
  2016
• Facts checked
  21 Sep 2026

• Where it wins

  • Knowledge graph connects assets, people, terms, systems, and lineage
  • Table-, column-, query-, pipeline-, and report-level lineage
  • Broad integrations plus AI-assisted catalog discovery

• Where it doesn't

  • Enterprise pricing requires contact with sales
  • Cloud catalog deployment may not suit cloud-avoidant teams
  • Its broad catalog scope may exceed focused lineage needs

Our verdict on data.world Data Catalog

data.world Data Catalog is a cloud-native catalog for enterprise data teams that need to discover, understand, govern, and collaborate around data. It connects data assets, people, business terms, systems, and lineage relationships through a knowledge-graph architecture. Data engineers, analysts, stewards, and governance leaders can use catalog search, governance workflows, lineage exploration, impact analysis, and AI-assisted discovery through Archie Chat. The platform is available through web and API access.

Pricing is handled through enterprise sales, according to the official pricing page. The published product scope includes metadata collection from databases, reporting tools, ETL/ELT systems, pipelines, and other data systems, along with automated metadata enrichment and governance automations. Integration coverage includes Apache Airflow, BigQuery, Databricks, dbt Core, dbt Cloud, Fivetran, Microsoft Power BI, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Tableau. SQL and SPARQL querying add options for working directly with catalog metadata, while reporting and dashboard metadata collection extends discovery beyond tables and databases.

Lineage is the platform’s clearest strength: it covers tables, columns, queries, transformations, data pipelines, reports, and dashboards, with upstream and downstream impact analysis. That makes it suited to organizations that want lineage embedded in a wider catalog and governance program rather than a narrowly focused lineage map. AI-assisted discovery adds another route to catalog exploration. Teams seeking a connected catalog with broad platform coverage should consider it; organizations that want a standalone, narrowly scoped lineage tool or a non-cloud catalog may prefer a different fit.

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data.world Data Catalog integrations

data.world Data Catalog lists 10 integrations on its own site.

• Apache Airflow
• BigQuery
• Databricks
• dbt Core
• dbt Cloud
• Fivetran
• Microsoft Power BI
• PostgreSQL
• Snowflake
• Tableau

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