Collibra
AI control plane for data and AI governance — with a data catalog, data lineage, a business glossary, data policy management, and governance that extends from data sources to models and agents.
Best for large enterprises looking for a business-led data governance platform that unites technical metadata management with regulatory risk controls.
OvalEdge
Unified data governance platform with a data catalog, data lineage, a business glossary, data privacy and compliance controls, and a data marketplace for delivering trusted data to teams, agents and models.
Best for data governance teams in regulated industries that want quality, lineage, and privacy compliance bundled into one platform instead of stitching together separate point tools.
Alation
Data intelligence platform, the Alation Intelligence Operating System — with data lineage, automated governance policy enforcement, natural language search, active metadata, and a marketplace for governed data products.
Best for enterprise data teams in regulated industries looking for a catalog that combines self-service discovery with AI-assisted documentation and automated governance policy enforcement.
Atlan
Context layer for AI, built on a data catalog — with AI-generated asset documentation, column-level data lineage, a business glossary, AI governance, and an MCP server that feeds business context to AI tools.
Best for AI-forward data teams at mid-to-large enterprises looking for a catalog that bridges technical metadata and business context while enabling governed AI workflows.
Immuta
Data provisioning platform that gets governed data into users' hands — combining a natural language policy engine, automated data classification, dynamic masking, and a marketplace for self-service access requests across Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Redshift.
Best for data engineering and governance teams that need fine-grained, policy-as-code access controls enforced consistently across multiple cloud data platforms without managing per-platform SQL grants.
DataGalaxy
Value governance platform — a data catalog with lineage, a business glossary and a marketplace, plus a portfolio layer that tracks the business impact and ROI of data and AI initiatives.
Best for CDOs and data governance teams in regulated industries looking to connect metadata management with measurable business value across cross-functional teams.
Informatica IDMC by Salesforce
AI-powered data management cloud, now part of Salesforce — with a data catalog, automated data lineage, a business glossary, master data management, and AI governance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Best for large enterprises in multi-cloud or hybrid environments that want catalog, MDM, and governance managed as one deeply integrated suite rather than assembled from best-of-breed point tools.
Ataccama ONE
Data trust platform with a data catalog, data lineage, a business glossary, data quality rules, and master data management.
Best for large organizations that want enterprise master data management, data quality, and data governance in a single platform.
Snowflake Horizon
Horizon Catalog, the built-in catalog and governance layer for Snowflake — with data classification, column- and row-level policy enforcement, data lineage, data quality monitoring, AI guardrails, and governance that reaches external catalogs beyond Snowflake.
Best for data governance teams already running their data platform on Snowflake who want native, policy-driven governance without adding a separate catalog tool.
Entropy Data
Data product marketplace (formerly Data Mesh Manager) where every data product has an owner and data contracts based on the Open Data Contract Standard.
Best for organizations adopting data mesh that want a data product marketplace with ODCS data contracts and policy checks.
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