Data Catalog
A data catalog is a collection of all data assets of an organization which uses metadata along with data management to help business users find data for their use case. A data catalog covers the discoverability feature of a database. It can also help build the lineage of the data.
Some examples of data catalog tools are:
- Alation
- Ataccama
A data catalog can help solve the below problems:
- Data security
- Data redundancy
- Data reproducibility
- Data steward
- Data staleness checks
- Frequency of refresh