More than just a data catalog.

Everything Metaphor does and more. Meet Secoda, the best alternative for better data discovery, governance, and observability.

Comparison overview

Secoda is the best Metaphor alternative - easy implementation, adoption, all in a unified platform.

FAQs

What are the benefits of using Secoda?

Secoda is a unified data governance platform. It is collaborative and searchable for all the data knowledge you need, not just technical metadata.

Secoda easily integrates with the important tools that you’re already using.

Secoda is easy to set up and use. We don’t charge for extra viewers and you’ll know exactly what you’re getting at our price point.In short, if you’re looking for a way to manage your data catalog, lineage, docs, dictionary, analysis, and data requests in one platform.

How is Secoda different from Metaphor?

Secoda differs from Metaphor in quite a few key ways. Secoda does not limit your viewers, offers advanced charting abilities, is easy to set up, and includes advanced workspace analytics.

Some additional benefits include:

Customer links and invitations - Share links with customers to show them data they need to see

Version control with Git - Rollback and merge Git changes with version control

Flexible, Notion-like docs - Make sure teams are on the same page with flexible Notion-like documentation

Confluence / Jira integrations - Integrate key tools like Confluence, Jira, and more.

API access - Secoda provides API access to allow you to embed data discovery into your existing data workflows

Does Secoda have an API?

Yes, Secoda has an API for our docs, collections, lineage, dictionary, catalog and questions. The API can be accessed on our Business and Enterprise plans.

Which data warehouse tools can I integrate with Secoda?

Secoda integrations with Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift, Databricks, Postgres, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL and S3. For more information about our integration, you can visit our integration docs.

Does Secoda integrate with Okta or Active Directory?

Yes, Secoda has the ability to connect with tools like Okta and Active Directory to manage your permissions from your RBAC tools. This way, you can confidently share Secoda knowing that the right people are seeing the right information.

Which BI tools can I integrate with Secoda?

Secoda integrations with Tableau, Looker, Metabase, Redash, Mode, Sigma, Power BI and Google Data Studio. For more information about our integration, you can visit our integration docs.

Does Secoda work with dbt?

Yes, Secoda works with both dbt Cloud and Core. Secoda is able to take the information from your YAML file and present it in your data discovery platform. In addition, Secoda also brings in dbt tests, tags, metrics and column level lineage into Secoda.

Does Secoda automate data lineage?

Secoda automates column and table level data lineage. In additional, Secoda also brings in tests, events and ETL into data lineage. All of Secoda's lineage is automated, but users can also manually contribute to lineage using Secoda's API.

Does Secoda include data monitoring or quality?

Secoda consolidates your data monitoring and observability, catalog, lineage, and documentation in one central platform so you can reduce complexity and save budget.

Does Secoda integrate with Git?

Yes, Secoda integrates with Git and provides a version control for all changes made in Secoda in Git. This allows data teams to have a version of all metadata changes in Github or Gitlab and roll back changes if needed. In addition, data teams are able to merge changes to a metadata and review changes to their workspace in Git using Secoda.

What metadata does Secoda extract?

Secoda does not pull in your data. Instead, Secoda pulls in metadata about your data. For a majority of the integrations connected to Secoda, this means Secoda pulls in resource names, popularity, lineage, queries, descriptions and frequent usage. For more information about our integration, you can visit our integration docs.

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