OpenMetadata comparisons
OpenMetadata is compared head-to-head with Alation Data Lineage, Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog and Talend Data Catalog and more: 6 head-to-heads in Data Lineage Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.
OpenMetadata head-to-head
- OpenMetadata vs Alation Data Lineage
- OpenMetadata vs Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog
- OpenMetadata vs Talend Data Catalog
- OpenMetadata vs DataHub Cloud
- OpenMetadata vs BigID Data Intelligence Platform
- OpenMetadata vs Goava Data Lineage
OpenMetadata vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Automated discovery | Column-level lineage | Impact analysis | Pipeline lineage | Deployment | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | OpenMetadata | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | 8.8 | |
| 1 | Alation Data Lineage | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | 9.2 | |
| 2 | Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | 9.1 | |
| 3 | Talend Data Catalog | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | 9.0 | ||
| 4 | DataHub Cloud | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Cloud | 8.9 | |
| 6 | BigID Data Intelligence Platform | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | 8.7 | |
| 8 | Goava Data Lineage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | 8.5 |
Compare OpenMetadata with any data lineage tool
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