Custom quote; commercial availability to confirm
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Modern catalog
A commercial metadata catalog with search, usage context, column-level lineage and AI documentation. Connector coverage varies; current commercial terms need a quote.
Trust
Knowing the data is right, and who owns it.
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Free software; self-hosted
Marquez
Open source
Open-source metadata service for collecting, storing, and visualizing OpenLineage events, with job/run history and dataset and column lineage.
Free source; self-hosting costs extra
Amundsen
Open source
Archived open-source data discovery catalog with metadata search, ownership context and configurable lineage. Upstream archived September 2026.
Free tier; paid plans by quote Collate
Modern catalog
Managed data catalog built on OpenMetadata, combining discovery, lineage, data quality, governance, and optional AI workflows.
Free core; hosting extra
OpenMetadata
Open source
An open-source metadata catalog combining discovery, lineage, data quality and governance, with self-hosted deployment and a separate managed service from Collate.
Coalesce
Modern catalog
Column-aware visual transformation for Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery and Fabric, with Catalog and Quality bundled; free Developer plan, Starter $150 per user per month.
Custom quote Acceldata
Observability
Enterprise data observability for quality checks, reconciliation, pipeline investigation, and compute cost monitoring.
Custom quote Datafold
CI/diffing
Data comparison and engineering automation platform for pre-merge validation, database migrations, and ongoing data quality checks.
Free OSS / Cloud quote Elementary
dbt-native
Data observability for dbt teams, with free self-hosted OSS and a Cloud platform for warehouse monitoring, column-level lineage, incident response, and AI assistance.
Free open source Great Expectations (GX)
Quality framework
Open-source Python data validation framework for reusable quality checks, detailed failure results, and pipeline validation. GX Cloud is discontinued.
Free; Team $750/mo + usage Soda
Quality framework
Data quality software combining explicit data contracts, pipeline verification, and anomaly monitoring, with cloud collaboration and AI assistance.
DataHub
Open source
Open-source metadata catalog from LinkedIn: column-level lineage, glossary, data contracts and an MCP server; managed DataHub Cloud is quote-only.
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