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Metadata Management Tools

Metadata Management

What is Metadata Management Tools?

A metadata layer makes reporting easy and eliminates the need for coding and SQL, allowing users and report writers to see and access information in simple business language. A metadata management platform provides a robust set of tools for configuring, standardizing and managing metadata attributes across multiple applications and services.

Common Features

  • Collaboration
  • APIs and Integration
  • Business Rules and Event Management
  • Automation of Metadata Creation
  • Business Glossary
  • Data Lineage
  • Data Monitoring and Administration
  • Hierarchy Management
  • Business Context
  • Metadata Design

Top Metadata Management Tools

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Next Award: Jul 2025

Top Metadata Management Tools 2025

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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7.3 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

Global IDs provides software for Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and helps large enterprises organize their data ecosystems. The platform, Data Ecosystem Evolution Platform, has evolved for two decades, and is unique in its ability to scale and uses Machine Learning and AI to automate complex processes. The Global IDs platform maintains an up-to-date, comprehensive inventory of data assets, wherever they are in the ecosystem.

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  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.4 /10

Maximize the power of your data with Dremio—the data lake engine. Dremio operationalizes your data lake storage and speeds your analytics processes with a high-performance and high-efficiency query engine while also democratizing data access for data scientists and analysts via a governed self-service layer. The result is fast, easy data analytics for data consumers at the lowest cost per query for IT and data lake owners.

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  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Enables Productivity
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

A machine learning-based data catalog that lets you classify and organize data assets across any environment to maximize data value and reuse, and provides a metadata system of record for the enterprise. Scan and index metadata, discover and profile data, and access detailed lineage across tens of millions of data sets with an enterprise-scale data catalog.

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  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Trustworthy
  • Fair
Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.0 /10

BigID is an innovator in data intelligence, with an ML-powered enterprise platform that reimagines data management for data discovery, privacy, security, and governance. BigID helps customers proactively manage and protect their data, reduce risk, and get more value from their data. With BigID, customers can make better decisions with their data, achieve compliance, scale with evolving data privacy and protection landscape, and ultimately reimagine how they manage their data.

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  • Respectful
  • Efficient Service
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Enables Productivity

Alation provides an open, powerful, and intelligent data platform that supports a wide variety of metadata management and related applications from search and discovery to data governance to digital transformation. incorporates machine learning to analyze the ways data is used and to identify patterns from those accessing information.

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  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Trustworthy
  • Saves Time

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Alex Solutions

Alex Solutions

Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

Alex Solutions is a Metadata Management Platform designed to empower everyone to securely find, understand, protect, and ethically use the world’s data. Alex Solutions supports the widest range of Use Cases by providing a unique and unified 360 view of Metadata. Unifying Data Quality, Data Security, Risk and Data Management, under a single Data Governance umbrella and all underpinned with Machine Learning and Intelligent-Actions for better business outcomes.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Enables Productivity
  • Efficient Service
Octopai

Octopai

Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

Intelligent metadata management automation for anyone dealing with data. Octopai is an automated, centralized, cross-platform metadata search engine that enables BI groups to quickly and precisely discover and govern shared metadata. Just google the metadata and within 5 seconds you get an accurate, detailed, clear map of the data journey.

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  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management (OEMM) is a comprehensive metadata management platform. OEMM can harvest and catalog metadata from virtually any metadata provider, including relational, Hadoop, ETL, BI, data modeling, and many more. OEMM however is not just a metadata repository, OEMM allows for interactive searching and browsing of the metadata as well as providing data lineage, impact analysis, semantic definition and semantic usage analysis for any metadata asset within the catalog.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
5.9 /10
CX Score
6.7 /10

Establish a strong governance framework to proactively find, understand, and manage your data for better business outcomes based on trusted data

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  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Efficient Service

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