Your evaluation guide to navigating
the top data catalogs
As modern data stacks become more complex, managing data has
become progressively challenging. The existence of numerous
disconnected data sources makes it difficult for data teams to
maintain data lineage, metadata, and other significant
information. However, data catalogs are traditionally
cumbersome resulting in poor adoption. Modern data teams need
more than what a traditional data catalog can do in order to
address these challenges. The movement towards data enablement
is the solution by offering an automated and centralized
repository for data discovery, documentation, and
governance.
Secoda is the only data enablement
platform to have a version controlled, publishing system as
well as AI powered semantic search to truly make data
discovery as easy as using Google search.
We’ll
compare Secoda to Collibra against six key criteria that
modern data teams should be considering during their data
catalog evaluation process:
Data discovery and documentation can be time-consuming tasks
that can slow down your workflow. This is why having an
efficient data catalog that automates documentation and
lineage is essential to streamline these processes.
Secoda helps you reduce the amount of time
spent on data discovery and documentation. It automatically
visualizes data lineage from all data sources in your data
stack, providing a clear and concise view of how your data
flows. The automatic visualization of lineage, customizable
interface, and granular view of data connectivity make it a
fit for any high performing data team.
With Secoda,
you also have the flexibility to add manual lineage nodes
through a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface. This allows
you to customize your data lineage views and ensure that your
data documentation is accurate and up-to-date. Secoda's
lineage feature works on both column and table levels,
providing a granular view of how your data is interconnected.
This can be especially helpful for troubleshooting and
identifying data quality issues.
Secoda also
provides notifications for changes to owners downstream via
Slack. This ensures that all stakeholders are informed of any
updates or changes to the data lineage, allowing for better
collaboration and communication among teams.
Collibra
is a legacy enterprise data catalog. Founded in 2008, it was
built to support on-premise data stacks and is not optimized
for the modern data stack. This is largely visible in the lack
of automation that modern data teams come to expect.
Especially with the lack of automatic metadata ingestion,
Collibra requires a significant amount of manual updating
which negatively affects the likelihood of adoption.
The effectiveness of a data catalog in resolving the
challenge of locating data hinges on its search capability.
Secoda sets itself apart from Collibra by leveraging its
powerful semantic search feature, powered by LLM, to provide
more precise and relevant search results. This advanced search
functionality enables users to ask any question related to
their data and receive a contextual answer that accurately
addresses their query.
For instance, if a user
searches for "What resources are used to calculate revenue",
Secoda's semantic search engine can provide relevant resources
that address such ambiguous queries. This robust search
feature makes it easier for users to locate the exact data
they need, increasing efficiency and productivity.
Collibra
was designed to be used only by data engineers and requires
technical expertise to deploy, configure, and maintain. It was
not designed for non-technical users in mind which can be
overwhelming for stakeholders and even other members of the
data team.
As a data enablement platform, Secoda
was built for data teams but designed to be used by anyone
across the organization.
Secoda is the only solution with a reviewer process and
version control to maintain governance over documentation. It
integrates with git so data teams can benefit from the same
efficiencies as modern software development teams.
Secoda
also allows data teams automatically identify and tag PII to
streamline data governance workflows and save countless hours
of time.
Collibra lacks automation as well as the
ability to create granular role based permissions. Collibra
also lacks version control.
Secoda is built on modern infrastructure and integrates with
both modern and legacy data stacks. New features are released
on a weekly basis and are supported with on-demand training if
required. Secoda employs an open feedback structure where we
listen closely to the needs and requests of our customers.
This is a product built for data professionals so they can
enable teams across their organizations with data.
It
is crucial to consider software maintenance and innovation
when selecting a modern data catalog. Legacy software may
require higher maintenance costs and have a slower release
cycle compared to modern data catalogs.
Secoda has
weekly feature releases to continuously improve the platform
and utilizes modern technology stacks, making more it flexible
and easier to integrate with other tools and services.
Data catalog adoption, as well as data products in general,
heavily relies on their customizability. If a data catalog is
incompatible with existing workflows, it will likely be
refused. The ideal data catalog should complement workflows
instead of disrupting them.
Secoda provides a high
level of customizability, such as allowing granular user
permissions and enabling the use of the API to create
customized integrations. Additionally, Secoda allows data
teams to create personalized alerts, notifying stakeholders
whenever a change affects downstream assets. This flexibility
makes Secoda an optimal choice for data teams seeking to
integrate a data catalog that accommodates their unique needs
and workflows.
Although Collibra allows
organizations to create customizable workflows, this requires
a high amount of engineering time and resources.
Collibra is an expensive enterprise solution which can make
it too expensive and not suited for teams looking to move
quickly. It is magnitudes more expensive than Secoda for less
functionality.
It’s easy to get started right away
with Secoda
without talking to a salesperson - something Collibra is
unable to offer. The intuitive user experience is designed to
quickly onboard new users and get them familiar with the
platform. Our success is your success. Secoda users have
access to live support and training - an expensive add-on
feature that Collibra only provides at their Enterprise
tier.
The choice of a data catalog tool is an important one, so it’s good to have all the right information. Secoda provides quite a few features that Collibra and other competitors don’t offer. Here are some ways Secoda sets itself apart:
As you scale up, competitors like Collibra will charge you for more users, whereas Secoda gives you unlimited users and guests from the start. Secoda can always scale with your team at no additional cost.
Secoda is easy to set up and doesn’t require coding. You can start using Secoda in minutes, allowing your workflows to remain uninterrupted while providing you with the incredible benefits of a data catalog tool.
Secoda makes it easy to collaborate and share data with third parties using customer links and invitations.
Share the data you need to make available to customers. Secoda makes it easy to send links and invitations to stakeholders, customers, and other third parties.
Secoda provides in-depth workspace analytics for your data. Help your team learn more about your data with these features.
Integrate Secoda with Git, and use version control to merge or roll back changes as needed.
Secoda makes data highly accessible, providing superior data Q&A and data request features compared to the competition. Your team will be more empowered to use company data than ever before.
Secoda is designed to be collaborative, providing flexible Notion-like docs for updates and documentation. Secoda makes sure everyone is on the same page.
hen you sign up for our Business and Enterprise platform, you can access our API and see docs, collections, lineage, dictionary, catalog, and questions.
Secoda is built to make data more accessible to business users and
data teams alike. Using our platform, any member of your team can
search, discover, and understand data. Best of all, they can do it
all from one platform. This empowers data-driven decisions, rids
your business of data silos, and increases overall data literacy
in your business.
Data and knowledge are power in the
modern business era. Make sure your team doesn’t have any
obstacles when it comes to using that data.
We’ve designed Secoda to be a holistic platform. Using Secoda
allows for collaboration, document updates, and increased data
knowledge between different teams. Some platforms are more focused
on the technical side of data.
While Secoda offers
these features, we offer much more to make data and collaboration
more intuitive and accessible for even non-technical users.Secoda
also makes external collaboration simpler, allowing you to share
data with customers, stakeholders, and other third parties.
Secoda makes it as simple as possible to search company data. It’s
right in our name. Anyone in your company can search for data to
find the answers they need, without running into errors or
inconsistencies.
When data is easily searchable, this
also reduces the burden on your data team, preventing them from
getting bogged down with requests. This also makes other team
members less dependent on the data team, allowing them to make
data-driven decisions on their own.
Secoda is the easiest data catalog platform to set up out of all
our competitors. You can easily sign up, connect the integrations
you need, and start using Secoda in just minutes. Secoda is also
ready to use out of the box, but you can tailor and customize it
to better fit your workflows too.In addition to being easy to set
up, Secoda’s pricing is simple too.
There’s no need to
pay for extra viewers. Get unlimited viewers from the start and
scale up with Secoda without having to worry about a price hike.
Here are some of the key benefits of using Secoda:Our name means “search company data,” and it’s easy to understand why when you use our tool. No tool is more intuitive for making data searchable, accessible, and easier to understand.Our platform doesn’t just focus on technical metadata. It’s a holistic platform that supports collaboration, data discovery, and much more.Secoda is easy to integrate with your other tools.Secoda is extremely easy to set up and allows for unlimited viewers.
Secoda offers many features and benefits that Collibra doesn’t.
When you choose Secoda, you’ll get unlimited viewers, version
control with Git, better data Q& and data requests, and much
more. Here are some other ways that Secoda differs from
Collibra:
Simple code, no set up - Secoda is
extremely easy to set up in just minutes.Customer links and
invitations - Secoda lets you easily share data with customer
links.Workspace analytics - Get in-depth data analytics with
Secoda.Flexible, Notion-like docs - Secoda provides flexible
docs to make collaboration easy.Confluence / Jira integrations -
Integrate your most important tools with Secoda.API access - Get
access to the Secoda API.
Secoda is the superior data catalog platform when compared to competitors like Collibra. Secoda is more scalable, easier to set up, and has better overall data features. In short, Secoda offers more features and benefits than the alternatives
Secoda does not pull in your data. Instead, Secoda pulls in metadata about your data. For a majority of the integrations connected to Secoda, this means Secoda pulls in resource names, popularity, lineage, queries, descriptions and frequent usage. For more information about our integration, you can visit our integration docs.
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