OpenMetadata

OpenMetadata is positioned as an end-to-end metadata management solution that aims to unlock the value of data assets. According to the vendor, it offers a comprehensive set of features for data discovery, governance, data quality, observability, and people collaboration. The product is said to be suitable for companies of all sizes, including small startups and large enterprises. It caters to the needs of various professions such as data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, data governance specialists, and data managers across industries like technology, finance, e-commerce, healthcare, and retail.

Key Features

All Data in One Place: OpenMetadata provides a central store to integrate metadata from different sources in the data ecosystem. According to the vendor, it brings together multiple applications, including data discovery, quality, observability, profiling, user collaboration, and lineage.

Data Collaboration: OpenMetadata is said to foster collaboration among data producers and consumers by storing all data evolution in one place. The activity feeds feature allows users to view metadata change events and stay updated. The vendor states that webhooks and Slack integration enable users to receive metadata event notifications and set up Slack notifications.

Metadata Versioning: OpenMetadata captures changes in technical and business metadata as versions of an entity. According to the vendor, this facilitates data governance, people collaboration, and simplifies debugging. It serves as an organizational memory of data, allowing users to track and manage metadata changes over time.

Data Lineage: OpenMetadata supports comprehensive lineage for all data assets by capturing the relation between entities. It traces the path of data across tables, pipelines, and dashboards. The vendor claims that manual lineage capabilities allow users to augment machine metadata lineage with user knowledge.

Integrations: OpenMetadata's ingestion framework supports connectors for a wide range of services, including Airflow, Amundsen, Apache NiFi, Athena, Atlas, and many more. According to the vendor, this allows seamless integration with existing data infrastructure.

Simple, Easy, and Efficient Data Quality with OpenMetadata: According to the vendor, OpenMetadata natively supports data quality, providing advantages such as lowered cost, improved productivity, better collaboration, and more.

OpenMetadata 1.1.0 Release: The 1.1.0 release of OpenMetadata includes UI overhaul, new connectors, improved lineage parsing, PII masking, and more, as stated by the vendor.

OpenMetadata 1.0 Release: The 1.0 release of OpenMetadata includes improved schemas and APIs, ingestion improvements, storage services, dashboard data models, auto PII classification, localization, and more, according to the vendor.