Data lineage tools for Apache Avro

Data lineage tools are software that allows to extract, view and analyze data lineage. Data lineage is the process of understanding and visualizing data flow from the source to different destinations. It allows to create a map of the data journey through the entire ecosystem.

Dataedo

Dataedo allows you to extract lineage automatically or design flows manually and visualize how data moves through the system with interactive diagrams. Dataedo supports object and column-level data lineage.

BI Tools lineage: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data migration tools lineage: Yes
Data warehouses lineage: Yes
ETLs: Yes
Free edition: No
Hadoop: Yes
NoSQL: Yes
Pipelines lineage: Yes
RDBMS: No
Dataedo Data Lineage
Dataedo Data Lineage Tableau
Dataedo Data Lineage Tableau 2
Dataedo Data Lineage Snowflake
Dataedo Data Lineage PowerBI

ASG Data Intelligence

ASG Data Intelligence (ASG DI) is the solution for data distrust. It is a metadata-driven platform that makes technical data “smarter” with end-to-end views of the data and its movements (data lineage) combined with business meaning and usage guardrails. It lets you visualize data flows mapped to business context, and it uniquely traces lineage by parsing code from data sources, applications, tools, and source code.

BI Tools lineage: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data migration tools lineage: No
Data warehouses lineage: Yes
ETLs: Yes
Free edition: No
Hadoop: Yes
NoSQL: Yes
Pipelines lineage: No
RDBMS: Yes

IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog

IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is an open and intelligent data catalog for managing enterprise data that also lets you ensure well-structured and maintained data lineage. It lets you track where data originated and how it’s consumed, increasing trust when accessing data across many sources and destinations

BI Tools lineage: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data migration tools lineage: No
Data warehouses lineage: Yes
ETLs: Yes
Free edition: No
Hadoop: Yes
NoSQL: Yes
Pipelines lineage: Yes
RDBMS: Yes

Talend Data Catalog

Talend Data Catalog gives your organization a single, secure point of control for your data. Its data flow lineage feature allows you to narrow in on specific objects and shows you how these objects are related to each other, within a model, an external metadata repository, or a configuration. The data flow lineage is based upon connection definitions to data stores and physical transformation rules which transform and move the data.

BI Tools lineage: No
Commercial: Commercial
Data migration tools lineage: No
Data warehouses lineage: No
ETLs: Yes
Free edition: No
Hadoop: Yes
NoSQL: Yes
Pipelines lineage: Yes
RDBMS: Yes

Alteryx Connect

Alteryx Connect uses powerful search capabilities to find and reuse information contained in data files, databases, visualizations, dashboards, workflows, analytic apps, and more. It lets you automatically capture and visualize data lineage between assets, improving the overall quality and reliability of shared information between data, process, and people. You can get technical data lineage by loading metadata from source and target systems and interpreting Alteryx workflows.

BI Tools lineage: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data migration tools lineage: No
Data warehouses lineage: Yes
ETLs: Yes
Free edition: No
Hadoop: Yes
NoSQL: Yes
Pipelines lineage: No
RDBMS: Yes

Informatica Metadata Management

Informatica Metadata Manager is a web-based metadata management tool. You can view data lineage for objects in the Metadata Manager warehouse. Data lineage shows the origin of the data, describes the path, and shows how it arrives at the target. Use data lineage to analyze data flow and troubleshoot data transformation errors.

BI Tools lineage: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data migration tools lineage: Yes
Data warehouses lineage: Yes
ETLs: Yes
Free edition: No
Hadoop: Yes
NoSQL: Yes
Pipelines lineage: No
RDBMS: Yes

Data lineage forms the foundation for accurate data analytics and management. The core features of data lineage focuses on:

• Identifying data quality issues.
• Performing root cause analysis.
• Enabling to understand which data sources are outdated or which datasets are relevant.
• Minimizing the risk of migration projects.
• Providing transparency over the life cycle of data.

Data lineage tools map the data flow and help you understand where the data originated, how it flows and transforms. To help you find the right tool for your company, we prepared a list that includes some of the best data lineage tools.