Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog (formerly Dataplex)

Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog (formerly Dataplex) is an intelligent data fabric that enables organizations to centrally discover, manage, monitor, and govern their data across data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts with consistent controls, providing access to data and powering analytics. Pricing is pay-as-you-go.

Features:

• Single pane of glass for data management across data silos
• Centralized security and governance enabling distributed ownership of data with global control
• Unified search and data discovery, based on business context, across distributed data
• Built-in data intelligence to enable trust in data and accelerate time to insights
• An open platform with support for open source tools and a robust partner ecosystem

Key features

Simplified data discovery

Automates data discovery, classification, and metadata enrichment of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, stored in Google Cloud and beyond, with built-in data intelligence. Manages technical, operational, and business metadata in a Data Catalog. Users can search, find, and understand it with built-in faceted-search interface using the same search technology as Gmail.

Data organization and life cycle management

Logically organize data that spans multiple storage services into business-specific domains using Dataplex lakes and data zones. Manage, curate, tier, and archive data.

Centralized security and governance

Enable central policy management, monitoring, and auditing for data authorization and classification, across data silos. Facilitate distributed data ownership based on business domains with global monitoring and governance.

Built-in data quality and lineage

Automate data quality across distributed data and enable access to data. Use automatically captured data lineage to better understand data, trace dependencies, and troubleshoot data issues.

Serverless data exploration

Interactively query fully governed, high-quality data using a serverless data exploration workbench with one-click access to Spark SQL scripts and Jupyter notebooks. It enables users to collaborate across teams with built-in publishing, sharing, and search features, and features one-click scheduling from the workbench.