Alation Data Catalog vs Zaloni Data Platform comparison

Alation and Zaloni are both solutions in the Data Governance category. Alation is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.4, while Zaloni is ranked #36. Alation holds a 7.6% mindshare in DG, compared to Zaloni’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 76% of Alation users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of Zaloni users who would recommend it.

Alation Data Catalog

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76% willing to recommend

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50% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Alation Data Catalog and Zaloni Data Platform compete in the enterprise data management and discovery category. Alation seems to have the upper hand in data cataloging capabilities, while Zaloni excels in data governance features based on comparisons.

Features: Alation Data Catalog includes enhanced data collaboration, efficient search functions, and user-friendly data asset management. Zaloni Data Platform offers robust data governance with detailed data quality metrics and lineage tracking, complemented by strong processing capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Alation features a straightforward deployment model with minimal downtime, and its proactive customer support ensures smooth integration. Zaloni requires a more complex setup due to its extensive features, potentially leading to longer deployment times. However, its customer service is highly responsive, aiding with complex configurations.

Pricing and ROI: Alation's competitive pricing appeals to organizations needing a scalable data catalog solution, yielding favorable ROI through efficient data usage. Zaloni's pricing reflects its extensive features, with ROI achieved via enhanced data management and quality improvements.

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Categories and Ranking

Alation Data Catalog

Ranking in Data Governance

4th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Metadata Management (2nd)

Zaloni Data Platform

Ranking in Data Governance

36th

Average Rating

6.6

Number of Reviews

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Data Preparation Tools (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of Alation Data Catalog is 7.6%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zaloni Data Platform is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Governance

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Brahma Lam

Developer at CVS Health

Has metadata cataloging features but needs changes in domain model

The tool's metadata cataloging is the most valuable feature. The tool's domain model needs to be changed. Alation Data Catalog is stable. The solution is scalable. Alation Data Catalog's deployment is easy. I rate it a nine out of ten. Deployment takes only two to three hours to complete.…

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reviewer1476264

Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Solid multi-ingestion tool but with poor exception handling

The major pain point with Zaloni is that their exception handling is not good. If any event happens (an event is when the job stops in the middle of the process), it doesn't tell you at which point it failed and it doesn't tell the operations team how they should take corrective actions unless you call Zaloni and then identify the issues. That is one issue. Another issue is that sometimes your jobs fail and if you run it a second time, it will go through. A third area it could be improved is the deployment process. When you want to deploy anything, it has a lot of manual processes. For example, you have to create your password in an encrypted format, and then you have to use a lot of manual deployment process. They should actually be building something else, like using Jenkins or automating their process. I have suggested to them that they have to improve their deployment process because they want everyone to run a manual deployment. It takes a lot of time, about half a day, for any single deployment. Then test it, then it might not work, and then reverting back is not easy because of the manual deployment process. I think in recent versions they added a lot of upgrades and additional features including a lot of integrations. Before it was just AWS, later they extended it to Azure. I'm not sure how they have extended it to GCP. It has some built-in features and a lot of improvements now because the UI and the features were not easy to navigate. Regarding showing the metrics, it's okay. I will say it's neither easy nor hard, there is whatever is required. Lastly, on the governance side, it's not very good. We faced some issues with the Ranger version. Ranger was an authentication tool on big data and Zaloni had some compatibility issues with the Ranger at that time. Later they said those are all going to be resolved, but at that time it had some issues. I'm not sure whether it was working with the Sentry or not.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Given the relatively low level of maturity, Alation's most relevant feature at the moment is a user interface that's easy to navigate, which helps us find and understand the data. So while Alation has a lot more functionality, our pain point right now is being able to easily find, understand, and trust the information to use it."

"Alation Data Catalog's best feature is the SQL query publication."

"We can customize templates based on our use cases."

"The solution is used to query MySQL clients and store data and documentation."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the ALLIE AI feature."

"The most valuable features of Alation Data Catalog are the simplicity in onboarding data sources, the security in securing the data sources, and the way the various users of Alation Data Catalog communicate with each other through a messenger."

"We had some of our data science engineers, who had built out some cloud-based data and data products for users. They were spending a lot of their time, up to 30 to 35% of their time, answering questions about the data and helping people understand how to use it. Once they were able to document that information within Alation, they were only focusing on around 5% of the high-value questions that really couldn't be solved through the catalog itself. It freed them up to be more productive, it made their end-users more productive, and it made the adoption rate of their data products rise more quickly because people were able to get to using them."

"The platform's most valuable features are workflow automation, automated business metadata tagging, technical metadata tagging, and data integration with data quality tools or platforms."

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"The most valuable feature is the ability to map data and write workflows with logic inside them."

"You can create a lot of ingestions based on the file levels or based on the time."

Cons

"The product's data governance features need improvement."

"I know that this has been on their roadmap and they're working on it, but as a whole, there's an untapped reservoir of capabilities within their article features that could be used and built upon."

"It would be good if the tool could show the output from the records while querying."

"Alation Data Catalog needs to develop a lot in terms of data governance and would be improved with a built-in interactive data quality solution."

"Although the solution performs far better in terms of data cataloging, its data governance capabilities need improvement."

"We have had issues setting up the connectors and getting Alation's support team to resolve issues."

"Data observability within Alation would be incredibly helpful for addressing these challenges"

"Alation Data Catalog does not provide end-to-end data lineage."

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"The major pain point with Zaloni is that their exception handling is not good. If any event happens, it doesn't tell you at which point it failed and it doesn't tell the operations team how they should take corrective actions unless you call Zaloni and then identify the issues. That is one issue."

"Technical support is in need of improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is a little expensive."

"The platform is moderately expensive compared to the other competitors in the market."

"A three-year agreement is better than a one-year rolling 12-month agreement from a price point of view. I'd recommend looking at a three-year deal because you can't stand up a catalog and produce value in 12 months."

"I don't have all the details on the pricing side, but the solution was more expensive than originally expected."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

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10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alation Data Catalog?

The platform's most valuable features are workflow automation, automated business metadata tagging, technical metadata tagging, and data integration with data quality tools or platforms.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alation Data Catalog?

I don't have all the details on the pricing side, but the solution was more expensive than originally expected. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solut...

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What needs improvement with Alation Data Catalog?

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Overview

Alation pioneered the data catalog market and is now leading its evolution into a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, lineage, stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation.

Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. With Alation, analysts are empowered to search, query and collaborate on their data to achieve faster, more accurate insights.

Trusted by 400+ enterprises worldwide like Salesforce, Nasdaq, LinkedIn, Finnair, and Cisco.

Zaloni simplifies big data for transformative business insights. We work with pioneering enterprises to modernize their data architecture and operationalize their data to accelerate insights for everyday business practices.

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Salesforce, Snowflake, Citrix, eBay, TripAdvisor, Albertsons, Nasdaq, Pfizer, LinkedIn, Finnair.

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