Data democratization tools for SQL Server

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.

Dataedo

Dataedo is a powerful software solution designed to break down data barriers within organizations. With an intuitive interface, Dataedo makes it easy to document, understand, and share data assets across technical and non-technical teams. By promoting data accessibility, Dataedo enhances decision-making and collaboration, ultimately driving innovation. Discover Dataedo to empower data democratization in your organization with transparent and accessible data.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: HTML,MS Excel,PDF
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes
Dataedo Data Community
Dataedo Data Lineage
Dataedo ERD
Dataedo Data Search
Dataedo Sensitive Data Discovery
Dataedo Report Catalog
Dataedo Data Catalog

Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog

Informatica Data Catalog is a machine learning-based data catalog that lets you classify and organize data assets across any environment to maximize data value and reuse, and provides a metadata system of record for the enterprise. It automatically scans and catalogs data across the enterprise, indexing it for enterprise-wide discovery using simple, Google-like search.

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

Redgate SQL Data Catalog

SQL Data Catalog is the relational data classification tool. It speeds up data classification with automatic suggestions and advanced filtering. It also performs automatic scanning of databases and schemas, catches any changes to the estate without the need to reregister instances, to ensure the latest information is captured.

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

Alteryx Connect

Alteryx Connect is a social data cataloging and data exploration platform for the enterprise. The powerful data cataloging provided by Alteryx Connect centralizes business terms and definitions, metrics, and information assets for maximum consistency, discoverability, and collaboration.

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

Lumada Data Catalog

Lumada Data Catalog software leverages AI, machine learning, and patented fingerprinting technology to automate the discovery, classification, and management of your enterprise data. It simplifies access and promotes collaboration allowing an organization to more intelligently use their data.

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

OvalEdge

OvalEdge is a data catalog tool that automatically organizes and catalogs your data using machine learning and advance algorithms. You can organize data using tags, usage statistics, user names, and other markers – so it’s easily retrievable with everyday language.

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

Data3Sixty Govern

Infogix Data360 Govern is an enterprise metadata management, data governance, and data catalog solution. It provides automated data catalog, search and discovery features. It improves productivity, accuracy, and understanding of the available data.

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

Truedat

Truedat is an open source data cataloging and governance tool that allows to quickly unify and explore combined metadata from different sources on the same interface. It enables to organize & enrich information through configurable workflows and monitor data governance activity.

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

Io-Tahoe

Io-Tahoe is an enterprise smart data discovery and AI-driven data catalog product that enables enterprises to accelerate to next-generation data management practices, radically improving data governance and regulatory compliance. Population of the data catalog is automated by using artificial intelligence and leveraging the discovery functionality and natural language analysis to automatically tag data.

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

Dawizz MYDATACATALOGUE

MYDATACATALOGUE is a data catalog and mapping tool that uses smart algorithms to list your information system’s data giving you a better understanding of your data assets. It accurately identifies the location of your data, and by cataloging your data sources, applications, and processes, you can intuitively search for the information you need.

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

Google Cloud Data Catalog

Google Cloud Data catalog is a fully managed and highly scalable data discovery and metadata management service that empowers organizations to quickly discover, manage, and understand all their data in Google Cloud. It offers a simple and easy-to-use search interface for data discovery, a flexible and powerful cataloging system for capturing both technical and business metadata.

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

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

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.