Data profiling tools for MySQL

Data Profiling tools allow analyzing, monitoring, and reviewing data from existing databases in order to provide critical insights. Data profiling can help organizations improve data quality and decision-making process by identifying problems and addressing them before they arise.

Dataedo

Dataedo is a metadata management & data catalog tool with a data profiling feature. It allows you to use sample data to learn what data is stored in your data assets. You can browse min, max, average and median values, see top values, as well as value and row distribution to understand the data better before using it.

Access control: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Windows
Sensitive data discovery: Yes
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: Avg,Max,Min,Stdev
Tagging data: -
Dataedo Data Profiling
Data Profiling in Desktop

Atlan

Atlan automatically profiles your data to identify missing values, outliers & other data anomalies. Data profiles are fully configurable, and admins can schedule data profile updates, run profiles on random/stratified samples or custom filters. Atlan's data profile is an open ecosystem, allowing teams to import data quality metrics from external ecosystems like data pipeline tools for key metrics, such as timeliness, or other internal tools or frameworks.

Access control: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Cloud
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: No
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: No
Runs on: (for desktop): -
Sensitive data discovery: Yes
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: Avg,Stdev
Tagging data: Yes

Datamartist

Datamartist is an easy-to-use data profiling tool for analyzing format, types, completeness, and value counts. It understands data quality issues clearly and quickly. It performs automated data profiling tasks, which can be used to create a periodic snapshot of key data quality metrics, letting an organization track and report on data quality.

Access control: No
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: No
NoSQL sources: No
Runs on: (for desktop): Windows
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: -
Tagging data: Yes

Global IDs Data Profiling Suite

Global IDs Data Profiling Suite is a data discovery and profiling tool that automates the discovery of data assets, automates data profiling, and provides an active inventory of all data assets.

Access control: No
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Linux
Sensitive data discovery: Yes
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: -
Tagging data: Yes

Datiris Profiler (discontinued)

Datiris Profiler is an intuitive data profiling tool. Its key features include cross-table analysis, domain validation, pattern analysis, conditional profiling, command-line interface, and many more. Besides that, with features such as batch profiling, you can queue up and profile data quickly and spend your time analyzing instead of gathering it.

Access control: No
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: No
Runs on: (for desktop): Windows
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: -
Tagging data: Yes

IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer

IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer provides data profiling and analysis to accurately evaluate the content and structure of your data for consistency and quality. It utilizes a reusable rules library and supports multi-level evaluations by rule record and pattern. It also facilitates the management of exceptions to established rules to help identify data inconsistencies, redundancies and anomalies, and make inferences about the best choices for structure.

Access control: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Linux,Windows
Sensitive data discovery: Yes
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: Avg,Stdev
Tagging data: Yes

Oracle Data Profiling and Data Quality for Data Integrator

Oracle Data Profiling is a data investigation and quality monitoring tool. It allows business users to assess the quality of their data through metrics, to discover or infer rules based on this data, and to monitor the evolution of data quality over time.

Access control: No
Commercial: Free
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: No
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: Yes
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: No
Runs on: (for desktop): Linux,Windows
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: -
Tagging data: No

Open Source Data Quality and Profiling

Open Source Data Quality and Profiling tool is an open source project dedicated to data quality and data preparation solutions. This tool is developing high performance integrated data management platform which will seamlessly do data integration, data profiling, data quality, data preparation, dummy data creation, meta data discovery, anomaly discovery, data cleansing, reporting, and analytic.

Access control: No
Commercial: Free
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: No
Free edition: Yes
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Mac OS,Windows
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: -
Tagging data: No

Data Ladder

Data Ladder’s DataMatch Enterprise offers one of the easiest to use data profiling tools in the market. It quickly provides enough metadata to construct a cogent profile analysis of data quality and quantifies the scope and depth of necessary add-ons to make the project successful. Once it does the profiling, it proceeds to perform data matching, cleansing, deduplication and standardization, finally achieving data validation.

Access control: No
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Windows
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: Avg,Max,Min
Tagging data: No

Aperture Data Studio

Aperture Data Studio is a powerful and easy-to-use data management suite that helps you quickly and easily profile data to understand deficiencies as an essential first step to cleansing, joining, and validating data. It profiles the complete data set and audits every step in readiness for statutory reporting and enhanced transparency of data and processes, de-risking compliance initiatives.

Access control: No
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: No
NoSQL sources: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Windows
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: Avg,Stdev
Tagging data: Yes

DataRobot Data Prep

DataRobot Data Prep enables both novice and expert users to quickly and interactively explore, profile, clean, enrich and shape diverse data into AI assets ready for machine learning model development and deployment. It offers a visually interactive user interface that presents data in familiar tabular or spreadsheet style with no coding required. DataRobot provides profiles for every record and feature, including how many values are unique or missing and the statistical mean, standard deviation, median, minimum value, and maximum value.

Access control: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Cloud
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): -
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: Avg,Max,Min,Stdev
Tagging data: Yes

Toad Data Point

Toad Data Point is a multi-platform database query, data prep, and reporting tool. It lets you visually profile and sample database tables and data sets for patterns, unique values, duplicates, missing information, min./max. values and more.

Access control: No
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): Windows
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: Avg,Max,Min,Stdev
Tagging data: Yes

TIBCO Clarity

TIBCO Clarity is data preparation, profiling, and cleansing tool. It detects data patterns and data types for auto-metadata generation. You can profile row and column data for completeness, uniqueness, and variation. Predefined facets categorize data based on text occurrences and text patterns. You can use the numeric distributions to identify variations and outliers in the data.

Access control: No
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Cloud
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: No
Runs on: (for desktop): -
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: Avg,Max,Min,Stdev
Tagging data: No

WinPure Clean & Match

The Data Profiling / Statistics module within WinPure Clean & Match is a user-friendly and powerful data profiling tool that can help your business to discover patterns and meaning in your data and to check the quality of your data by analyzing formats, types, completeness, and value counts. It presents you with a complete set of statistics that you can use to help clean and correct your data, and to prepare it better for data matching.

Access control: No
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: Yes
Metadata identification: No
NoSQL sources: No
Runs on: (for desktop): Windows
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: -
Tagging data: No

Trillium Discovery

Trillium Discovery provides industry-leading data profiling at scale, designed specifically to meet the challenges presented by today’s data environments, with native connectivity to cloud and big data sources to execute data profiling tasks. It lets you visually assess the quality of your data and support data governance with comprehensive profiling, customized to your business

Access control: No
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Cloud
Excel workbooks: No
Flat files: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata identification: Yes
NoSQL sources: Yes
Runs on: (for desktop): -
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: -
Tagging data: No

The use of data profiling tools can lead to higher-quality, more reliable data or eliminating errors that add costs to data-driven projects. Eliminating these costly errors involve processes such as:

• Collecting descriptive statistics.
• Collecting data types, length and recurring patterns.
• Tagging data with keywords, descriptions or categories.
• Performing data quality assessment.
• Discovering metadata and assessing its accuracy.

The most efficient way of handling the data profiling process is to automate it with a data management solution. We prepared a list of open-source data profiling tools that help you carry out the analysis of your data and identify the issues.