Data lineage tools for Tableau

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 PowerBI
Dataedo Data Lineage Snowflake
Dataedo Data Lineage Tableau 2
Dataedo Data Lineage Tableau

MANTA

MANTA is a data lineage platform that automatically scans your data environment to build a powerful map of all data flows and deliver it through a native UI and other channels to both technical and non-technical users. It automatically scans every nook and cranny to get immediate, accurate, and up-to-date lineage.

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

SolarWinds Database Mapper

SolarWinds Database Mapper (formerly SentryOne Document) delivers powerful documentation and data lineage analysis capabilities in a cloud or software solution. With Database Mapper, you can track data lineage with a visual display that clearly shows data dependencies across your environment

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

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

Atlan

Atlan provides effortless data lineage & governance by letting you auto-construct data lineage & deploy best-in-class data access governance without compromising on data democratization. It automatically parses through your SQL query logs in your data warehouses and BI tools to create a visual view of data lineage.

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

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

MetaCenter

MetaCenter automates data lineage analysis across Databases, ETL, Business Intelligence, Cloud, and Hadoop environments. It lets you reduce data management costs by automating data lineage and impact analysis documentation.

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

Tree Schema

Tree Schema lets you explore your data lineage and understand where your data comes from and where it is going. It leverages the APIs in your database and dashboard tools to automatically extract your data lineage. Granular field-level source to target mapping provides an end-to-end view for your data lineage while describing connections between databases.

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

OvalEdge

OvalEdge offers a comprehensive lineage solution to show a complete the complete data cycle. OvalEdge algorithms parse various kinds of source code to build the lineage automatically and then it is enhanced by experts with proper descriptions.

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

Truedat

Truedat is an open source data governance business solution tool that lets you have an end to end vision of your data from a business and technical point of view. Truedat data lineage module allows the visualization of the information life cycle, as well as the interconnection between each system of the organization, which allows to have a complete traceability of the data, as well as impact analysis in the event of possible changes in data structures or processes.

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

Dremio

Dremio is a SQL Lakehouse Platform built from the ground up to deliver high-performing BI dashboards and interactive analytics directly on the data lake. It offers effective data lineage support, as the relationships between your data sources, virtual datasets, and all your queries are maintained in Dremio’s data graph, telling you exactly where each dataset came from.

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

Secoda

Secoda is a data discovery tool that offers an intuitive, collaborative, and easy to implement data discovery built. It automatically extracts queries to generate data lineage. Currently, it is supporting table lineage for Snowflake, dbt, Redshift, and BigQuery, with support for Postgres, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server coming soon. Secoda data lineage can help data teams identify the downstream and upstream dependencies of a table easily. On each dependency, you will be able to see how many levels away a particular table is, with the ability to view the data in a visual form coming soon.

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