Data Catalog

The Data Catalog empowers data users to have a holistic view of data, quickly discover data lineage that drives insightful decisions, and optimize their business value.

What is Data Catalog?

Data Catalog is your ultimate gateway to discovering, accessing, and leveraging data. With intuitive search capabilities, seamless navigation, and comprehensive datasets, Data Catalog transforms how you explore and utilize data.

A Data Catalog is a centralized repository that helps organizations efficiently discover, manage, and govern their data assets. It serves as a metadata management tool, providing a structured inventory of data assets across various sources, including databases, data lakes, data warehouses, and business applications/ modules.

The Role of Data Catalog in the BDB Platform

The Catalog module in BDB is a centralized repository that provides technical users with a comprehensive view of an organization's data assets. It serves as an essential tool for data governance, discovery, and management, streamlining workflows for data engineers, data scientists, and analysts.

Core Functionality

  • Metadata Management: The Catalog organizes and documents essential metadata, including technical details (schemas, data types), operational context (usage patterns), and business definitions (glossaries). This ensures that data is consistently understood and used across teams, eliminating ambiguity and fostering a shared data language.

  • Data Lineage: It offers a clear, visual representation of the data lifecycle, from its source to its final destination. This data lineage capability allows users to trace transformations, understand dependencies, and pinpoint the origin of data issues, which is critical for debugging, impact analysis, and maintaining data integrity.

  • Data Discovery and Search: The Catalog provides a powerful search interface for quickly locating relevant datasets. Users can search by keywords, tags, or business terms, accelerating the process of finding and accessing the right data for their projects.

  • Collaboration and Trust: By serving as a single source of truth for all data-related information, the Catalog promotes collaboration. It enables teams to share knowledge, validate data quality, and collectively govern data assets, building trust and confidence in the data used for analysis and modeling.

By leveraging the Data Catalog, technical users can significantly enhance their productivity and the quality of their work, ensuring they spend less time searching for data and more time deriving insights from it.

Data Catalog Search provides a centralized place to:

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