Metadata Management tools for MySQL

List of metadata management tools

Metadata management tool is a solution that supplements the data stored by the enterprise environment with useful information. Proper metadata management is a crucial factor to make information searchable, easy to locate and understand. Such tools add meaningful context to raw data, making it convenient to discover even by non-IT members of an organization.

Dataedo

Dataedo centralizes metadata management by organizing, documenting, and categorizing data assets across multiple sources. Key features include Auto AI Documentation, Business Glossary, Data Classification, Data Lineage, and Data Profiling.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: Yes
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: On premises
Rating of assets: Yes
Reference data: Yes
Support for workflow: No
Data Dictionary
ERD
Business Glossary
Data Classification
Data Profiling
Data Lineage

Data3Sixty Govern

Infogix Data360 Govern is an enterprise metadata management, data governance, and data catalog solution that discovers the quality, value, and trustworthiness of your data sets. It enables you to quickly crawl, profile, score and manage complex metadata. You’ve then built a single, searchable inventory of data assets for future use.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: No
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: On premises
Rating of assets: Yes
Reference data: No
Support for workflow: Yes

Adaptive Metadata Manager

Adaptive Metadata Manager comprises a number of highly configurable software components that provide an organization with the eight-core capabilities required to govern and improve virtually any data-driven business capability. These capabilities are: Data Lineage, Data Quality, Impact Analysis, Business Terminology, Business to Technical Traceability, Version Management, Change Approval Workflow, Stewardship, and Automated Harvesting & Stitching.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: Yes
Data Classification: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
On premises/cloud: On premises
Rating of assets: No
Reference data: No
Support for workflow: Yes

erwin Data Catalog

erwin Data Catalog (erwin DC) is metadata management software that helps organizations learn what data they have and where it’s located, including data at rest and in motion. It tells you the data and metadata available for a certain topic so those particular sources and assets can be found quickly for analysis and decision-making.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: Yes
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: On premises
Rating of assets: No
Reference data: Yes
Support for workflow: Yes

Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management

Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management (OEMM) is a comprehensive metadata management platform. OEMM can harvest and catalog metadata from virtually any metadata provider, including relational, Hadoop, ETL, BI, data modeling, and many more.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: Yes
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: On premises
Rating of assets: No
Reference data: No
Support for workflow: Yes

TopBraid EDG–Metadata Management

TopBraid EDG-Metadata Management (TopBraid EDG-MM) lets organizations govern information about their data assets, software applications, infrastructure, business capabilities, and processes. It is key to managing enterprise data as assets and to understanding the lineage of the data and its metadata.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: Yes
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: On premises
Rating of assets: -
Reference data: No
Support for workflow: Yes

Ataccama Metadata Management & Data Catalog

Ataccama Metadata Management & Data Catalog is an AI-powered metadata management module. It’s a central storage for all of your metadata—imported from other sources, crowdsourced, or automatically captured in continuous data discovery processes.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: Yes
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: On premises
Rating of assets: No
Reference data: No
Support for workflow: No

Octopai

Octopai automates metadata management and analysis, enabling enterprise BI groups to quickly, easily and accurately find and understand their data for improved operations, data quality and data governance.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: No
Data Classification: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
On premises/cloud: Cloud
Rating of assets: -
Reference data: No
Support for workflow: No

Global IDs

The Global IDs Enterprise Data Automation (EDA) platform builds metadata using its discovery, profiling, classification, lineage, and catalog functions, overcoming barriers between silos and creating a unified map of the entire enterprise data landscape: the location of data, its meaning and dependencies, and its flow patterns through the ecosystem.

Business Glossary: No
Change history: No
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: On premises
Rating of assets: No
Reference data: No
Support for workflow: No

Alteryx Connect

Alteryx provides metadata management that natively extracts and refreshes field names, schemas, and more to speed integration and flex with change. It automatically loads field names, types, objects, schemas, and relationships from common sources to speed analytics and cataloging. 

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: No
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: Cloud
Rating of assets: Yes
Reference data: Yes
Support for workflow: Yes

IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog

IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog is an open and intelligent data catalog for managing enterprise data and AI model governance, quality and collaboration. It provides unique capabilities that include automated data discovery and metadata generation, ML-extracted business glossary from most common regulatory terms, and many more.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: No
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: Cloud
Rating of assets: Yes
Reference data: Yes
Support for workflow: Yes

SAP Data Intelligence

SAP Data Intelligence provides metadata management, data catalog and data governance functionality. The tool uses metadata crawlers to explore, classify, and label data assets across your connected landscape. It also enables you to review transformation history and metadata to quickly understand how, where, and why data has been altered.

Business Glossary: No
Change history: Yes
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: Cloud
Rating of assets: No
Reference data: Yes
Support for workflow: 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.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: No
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: No
Data Profiling: No
On premises/cloud: Cloud
Rating of assets: No
Reference data: No
Support for workflow: No

Tree Schema

The Tree Schema data catalog provides all of the essential metadata management 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.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: No
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: Cloud
Rating of assets: -
Reference data: Yes
Support for workflow: No
Schema Metadata
Full cataloge search

Atlan

Atlan ML driven metadata management approach automatically scans, discovers and tags data assets across your data ecosystem and constructs relationships via SQL parsing, and a bot based ecosystem. This knowledge graph engine, then manifests in an easy to use data discovery tool, data catalog and business glossary that allows data consumers to find, understand and trust data in one collaborative workspace.

Business Glossary: Yes
Change history: Yes
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
On premises/cloud: Cloud
Rating of assets: Yes
Reference data: Yes
Support for workflow: Yes

Metadata management tools are usually multifunctional programs that provide a wide spectrum of usability. They include functionalities such as:
• Data catalog,
• compatibility with multiple connectors, making the tool a single source of truth about the data from different repositories,
• Business glossary,
• Data lineage,
• Data profiling,
• Impact analysis,
• Metadata ingestion and translation.

From the organization's point of view, the ability to export the created documentation into user-friendly formats is also important. What is more, some of the tools offer a community module, which facilitates the information flow.

Metadata management solutions oversee data across its entire lifecycle. This typically covers four primary areas: data analysis, data value, data governance, risk and compliance.

 Proper metadata management implementation allows for standardized metadata definitions, management, and maintenance of information across the organization for greater business efficiency. 

 Today, as data becomes increasingly important to the growth of company performance, choosing the right way to manage it is equally essential.

To help you find the right tool for your organization, we have put together this list of best metadata management solutions.