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SOFTWARE/DATA AND ANALYTICS/DATA CATALOGUE/OPEN-SOURCE DATA CATALOGUE SOFTWARE

Open-source data catalogue software

10 ranked, with a plain verdict on every entry.

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Koordinates ranks first here for Government agencies and engineering teams, and provisions REST APIs and Esri REST endpoints for every dataset. Qubole is built for Data engineers and analysts, and automates installation and maintenance of multiple open source engines with near zero administration. Cloudera serves global enterprises requiring sovereign AI control, and converges public cloud with enterprise data centres for a unified experience.
RANKENTRYSCORETRENDFROM
1KoordinatesOffers Git-style version control with branches and merges for spatial data management94.0NEW–
2QuboleQubole is an open and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics92.0NEW–
3ClouderaDelivers an open data lakehouse powered by Apache Iceberg90.0NEW–
4RudderStackProvides AI-powered chat interfaces for safe data access90.0NEWFree
5DKANEliminates licensing costs associated with proprietary software86.0NEW–
6EarthmoverOffers a permanent free tier with real repositories and storage86.0NEW–
7MarquezAllows easy traversal of dependency trees across multiple pipelines86.0NEW–
8DataHubBreaks down data silos with conversational data discovery84.0NEW–
9MagdaCombines vector similarity with lexical ranking to match query meaning78.0NEW–
10OpenAtlasMaps information to the international standard of the CIDOC CRM72.0NEW–
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The ranking, in detail

01

Koordinates

One place for spatial data with self-service for everyone.

Koordinates is a comprehensive spatial data platform designed for storing, browsing, and sharing geospatial information. It provides self-service capabilities for teams to manage authoritative datasets without requiring specialist GIS skills.

Best for Government agencies and engineering teams
94.0
02

Qubole

The cost efficient data lake platform

Qubole is an open and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics. It provides end-to-end services that reduce the time and effort required to run workloads on any cloud.

Best for Data engineers and analysts
92.0
03

Cloudera

The industry’s only platform bringing AI to data anywhere

Cloudera is a modular hybrid data and AI platform engineered for the agentic era. It brings artificial intelligence to data anywhere across clouds, data centres, and the edge.

Best for Large global enterprises requiring sovereign AI control
90.0
04

RudderStack

Warehouse-native customer data platform

RudderStack is an agentic customer data platform designed for collaborative human and agent workflows. It enables teams to collect, unify, and activate customer data efficiently.

Best for Data engineering teams using modern data stacks
90.0
05

DKAN

A powerful open data platform making data FAIR.

DKAN is a community-driven open data platform built as a Drupal module. It creates modern, API-first catalogues for government and nonprofit organisations.

Best for Government agencies
86.0
06

Earthmover

The science data cloud

Earthmover is a full stack for multidimensional scientific data. It combines storage, governance, and compute services into one platform.

Best for scientific AI teams
86.0
07

Marquez

The complete OpenLineage solution for data lineage

Marquez enables consuming, storing, and visualising OpenLineage metadata from across an organisation. It serves use cases including data governance, quality monitoring, and performance analytics.

Best for Data engineering teams
86.0
08

DataHub

The context platform for AI agents

DataHub is an AI and data context management platform.

Best for enterprise data teams building agentic AI
84.0
09

Magda

A federated, AI-enhanced data catalogue for all your data

Magda provides a single place where an organisation’s data can be catalogued, enriched, searched, tracked and prioritised.

Best for Data analysts, scientists and engineers
78.0
10

OpenAtlas

Easily manage your research data

OpenAtlas is an open source database software developed especially to acquire, edit and manage research data from various fields of humanities like history, archaeology and cultural heritage as well as related scientific data.

Best for researchers in the humanities
72.0
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Positions 1, 2 and 3 are available to buy for twelve months.

Frequently asked questions

What do the top four say they are built for?

Koordinates says it is built for Government agencies and engineering teams, and Qubole for Data engineers and analysts. Cloudera says it is built for global enterprises requiring sovereign AI control, and RudderStack for Data and engineering teams.

What should a buyer check before signing up?

OpenAtlas states that OpenAtlas is not a stand-alone application but meant to be installed on a Linux web server. Those are the limits each product publishes itself, not a full account of any plan.

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