Data democratization tools

Data democratization tools enable the access of data by anyone in the organization, regardless of their role or technical knowledge, in order to make data-informed decisions. It's a crucial element which eliminates gatekeepers and bottlenecks that they create in the company.

Azure Data Catalog

Azure Data Catalog is an enterprise-wide metadata catalog that makes data asset discovery straightforward. It’s a fully-managed cloud service that lets any user (analyst, data scientist, or developer) register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume data sources.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: No
Data Lineage: No
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: JSON
Free edition: Yes
Rating of assets: No

Qlik Data Catalyst

Qlik Data Catalyst is a metadata driven data catalog that has technical and business descriptions, data profiles, data lineage, and data tags that make data search and delivery simple. It builds a secure, enterprise-scale catalog of all the data your organization has available for analytics, no matter where it is.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: CSV,JSON,XML
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Tree Schema

The Tree Schema data catalog provides all of the essential catalog capabilities including rich-text documentation, data lineage, assigning data stewards and technical owners to your data assets, tagging your assets and much more. You can point Tree Schema to your database and fully populate your catalog in under 5 minutes. Tree Schema also supports non-traditional data sources including S3, Kafka and DynamoDB.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: Plain text
Free edition: Yes
Rating of assets: No
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Atlan

Atlan is a modern, cloud native data catalog. It's ease of use and intuitive interface enables diverse personas including engineers, data stewards and business users to discover, understand and trust data. Atlan leverages machine learning and a bots ecosystem to automate documentation and stewardship tasks such as automatic data profiling, data quality alerts and glossary tagging. It is built on an Open API architecture, and has a pay as you go pricing model, making it a good fit for teams of all sizes.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: -
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Sidecar

Sidecar data catalog is a modern, intuitive and comprehensive tool to discover, classify and enrich all your data assets. Automatically index all the metadata in a centralized repository and provide a clear view of the complex and fragmented data management environments to your data consumer. With the Business Glossary capabilties, you can easily enrich all your data assets with business context, clear definitions, rules and transformations. Foster team work among the user community by exchanging ideas on the data assets with the collaboration tool. Add custom tags and classifcations to organize your assets and manage your sensitive data to comply with GDPR, HIPAA, CPRA, etc... Data consumers will spend less time searching for the right data and focus on delivering faster insights.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Export: CSV,XML
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Stemma

Stemma is a fully managed data catalog, powered by the leading open-source data catalog, Amundsen. By bridging the gap between data producers and data consumers, Stemma enables you to gain total trust in your data. Stemma provides enterprise management (easy deployment, enterprise-grade security) and richer metadata. It makes finding trustworthy data easy and offers an always up-to-date view of your data's usage at any time through automated documentation based on common usage patterns.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: -
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Select Star

Select Star automatically catalogs & documents your database tables and BI dashboards. You can find out where your data is coming from, which dashboards are built on top of it, who is using the data, and how they are using it.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: -
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Export: CSV,JSON
Free edition: Yes
Rating of assets: No

Data democratization is essential to agile, data-driven organizations. The ability to access and understand data creates more data-driven employees and it leads to faster decision making. What is more, democratizing data allows the team members to take on ownership and more responsibility while using data to make decisions.

Enterprises that democratize data are able to access data that was previously locked in a data warehouse or data lake and accessible only to the IT employees. They are also able to address resource limitations and data enablement.

In our list, we included data democratization tools that can help you facilitate easy access to data.