Data profiling tools for XML

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

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

Talend Data Fabric

Talend Data Fabric combines data integration, integrity, and governance in a single, unified platform. Talend Data Fabric's capabilities allow you to extract, process, and profile data from virtually any source to your data warehouse. Data profiling lets you quickly identify data quality issues, discover hidden patterns, and spot anomalies through summary statistics and graphical representations.

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): Mac OS,Windows
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: -
Tagging data: Yes

Informatica Data Profiling

Informatica’s data profiling solution, Data Explorer, is available in two editions—Standard and Advanced—that employ powerful data profiling capabilities to scan every single data record, from any source, to find anomalies and hidden relationships. It works regardless of complexity or of the relationship between your data sources.

Access control: No
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

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

Astera Centerprise

Astera Centerprise is an end-to-end data integration software that enables you to integrate, cleanse, and transform data in a code-free environment. Its built-in data profiling feature lets you easily examine your source data and get detailed information about its structure, quality, and integrity. Custom data integration and quality rules can also be defined to validate incoming data and identify missing or invalid records.

Access control: Yes
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: Avg,Max,Min
Tagging data: No

DataCleaner

The heart of DataCleaner is a strong data profiling engine for discovering and analyzing the quality of your data. Find the patterns, missing values, character sets and other characteristics of your data values.

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

CloverDX

CloverDX Data Profiler is a CloverDX module that lets you perform various analyses of your data. It is a part of CloverDX Designer and helps to do various profiling tasks, such as finding the maximum value, median, the most unique value, and many others.

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,Mac OS,Windows
Sensitive data discovery: No
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: Avg,Max,Min,Stdev
Tagging data: No

OpenDQ

OpenDQ integrates data profiling, standardization, enhancement, fuzzy matching, and de-duplication components with enterprise-class data extraction, transformation, and loading software, to create a comprehensive and complete view of enterprise data. It lets you identify your data’s current state, resolve missing values/erroneous values, discover formats and patterns, reveal hidden business rules, report on column minimums, averages, and maximums, measure business rule compliance across data sets, and provide point in time data profiling history.

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

MIOvantage

MIOvantage is a single solution platform that lets you profile data, run rules, deduplicate data, identify entities, generate reports, and more. From entity resolution to complex deduplication, MIOvantage builds a better, clearer picture from your data.

Access control: No
Commercial: Commercial
Desktop/Cloud: Desktop
Excel workbooks: Yes
Flat files: No
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: No

Alation Data Catalog

Alation’s data profiling capabilities help reduce the time spent in the data exploration phase. With Alation’s data profile, data consumers have the metrics they need to easily discern the quality of any data object. Alation displays important characteristics, statistics, and numerical graphs about the data — enabling data scientists and data engineers to quickly take action. The data profiling now also includes new charts and customizations.

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: Yes
SQL sources: Yes
Statistics of data: -
Tagging data: Yes

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.