Metadata Plane

Catalogue and governance platform built on a federated knowledge graph, covering discovery, lineage, data products and contracts, with a marketplace and agent-facing access to its metadata.

• Commercial

Enterprise data catalogue for search, discovery, stewardship and governance.

• Commercial

Amundsen

Metadata Plane · Data Catalogues & Discovery

Data discovery tool built at Lyft, with search ranked by usage. Archived in September 2026 and no longer maintained; listed for reference and migration planning.

• Open source

Atlan

Metadata Plane · Data Catalogues & Discovery

Active metadata platform for data cataloguing, discovery and governance.

• Commercial

Data catalogue, documentation, lineage and quality platform pitched as lightweight, priced per editor with unlimited viewers and published list prices rather than quote-only.

• Commercial

Data catalogue and governance platform positioning itself as a context engine, covering discovery, business meaning, lineage and AI-ready data context for both people and agents.

• Commercial

DataHub

Metadata Plane · Data Catalogues & Discovery

Open-source metadata platform for discovery, lineage and governance, with a managed cloud offering.

• Open core

OpenMetadata

Metadata Plane · Data Catalogues & Discovery

Open-source metadata platform for discovery, lineage, data quality and collaboration.

• Open core

Federated metadata catalogue for tables, files, streams and models, managed in place across sources and served to Spark, Trino and Flink through one namespace.

• Open source

Open-source catalogue that implements the Apache Iceberg REST catalogue API.

• Open source

Managed technical metadata catalogue for data on AWS, used by services such as Athena, EMR and Redshift.

• Cloud service

Commercial distribution of Apache Gravitino, adding SCIM provisioning, role-based access control across federated catalogues, an administration UI, audit logging and a supported Helm chart.

• Commercial

Apache Hive's metadata service, still widely used as a table catalogue by Spark and other engines.

• Open source

Governance catalogue for data and AI assets, available as open source and managed in Databricks.

• Open core

Marquez

Metadata Plane · Lineage

Open-source metadata service that collects and visualises OpenLineage data.

• Open source

OpenLineage

Metadata Plane · Lineage

Open standard for collecting lineage metadata from pipelines and engines.

• Open source

Data lineage modelling and visualisation for governance and regulatory use cases.

• Commercial

AtScale

Metadata Plane · Semantic Layer & Metrics

Semantic layer for consistent business metrics across BI tools and data platforms.

• Commercial

Cube

Metadata Plane · Semantic Layer & Metrics

Semantic layer that defines metrics once and serves them to BI tools, applications and AI.

• Open core

dbt Semantic Layer

Metadata Plane · Semantic Layer & Metrics

Metrics defined centrally in dbt and queryable from BI and other data tools.

• Commercial

Idera's enterprise data modelling suite for logical and physical models, with a shared team repository, business glossary and web portal for metadata.

• Commercial

Long-established data modelling tool, now from Quest, for conceptual, logical and physical models, with forward and reverse engineering of database schemas.

• Commercial

Polyglot data modeller that keeps one technology-agnostic model and derives schemas for relational, NoSQL and cloud platforms, APIs and file formats.

• Commercial

SAP's model-driven design tool for conceptual, logical and physical data models alongside enterprise architecture, backed by a shared metadata repository.

• Commercial

SqlDBM

Metadata Plane · Data Modelling & Design

Browser-based data modelling for cloud platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery, with Git and dbt integration for team workflows.

• Cloud service