BigID vs MANTA Flow comparison

BigID and Manta are both solutions in the Data Governance category. BigID is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.3, while Manta is ranked #29. BigID holds a 7.6% mindshare in DG, compared to Manta’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of BigID users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Manta users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

BigID and MANTA Flow operate in the data management space, with BigID focusing on privacy and protection while MANTA Flow prioritizes data lineage and governance. BigID appears advantageous in regulatory compliance and risk management, whereas MANTA Flow leads in data lineage visualization and governance.

Features: BigID offers automated data discovery and classification, privacy management functionalities, and regulatory compliance enhancements. MANTA Flow provides comprehensive data lineage visualization, impact analysis capabilities, and thorough insights into data dependencies and flows.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BigID ensures easy deployment through flexible architecture and supports varied environments with strong integration capabilities. MANTA Flow offers a straightforward deployment process, with emphasis on strong customer support and detailed guidance, ensuring easy implementation in complex data landscapes.

Pricing and ROI: BigID's pricing targets enterprise solutions with substantial ROI from improved compliance and risk management. MANTA Flow's competitive pricing offers high ROI by enhancing data governance and operational efficiency. BigID requires higher initial investment justified by compliance benefits, while MANTA Flow delivers value through its data lineage and governance features.

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Categories and Ranking

BigID

Ranking in Data Governance

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Privacy Management Software (3rd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (7th)

MANTA Flow

Ranking in Data Governance

29th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of BigID is 7.6%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MANTA Flow is 0.7%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Governance

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Ankita Sabale

Senior Associate - IT Governance and Compliance at Fulcrum Digital Inc

Predefined classifiers in place support sensitive data scanning effectively

BigID does not currently support Kerberos authentication for DataStax. On the user interface, analyzing true and false positives can be challenging, as I can only view 2,000 characters at a time. When tagging scan results, all objects get tagged without the option to untag specific ones. This requires reverting changes through MongoDB, which can result in data loss.

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LeandroSodré

Data Governance Analyst at Data Meaning, Inc.

Very Powerful, with cloud based scalability, and highly efficient for both business and technical teams

I had some difficulties, trying to use the direct link which is metadata through files that you can upload to MANTA Flow and you can just say from there where that data is going. But we just figured out that sometimes, depending on the level of the granularity that if you want to link the object, you can not. For example, if you want to link the objects just by schema, sometimes it does not work. So you need to scroll down and link each table. Sometimes the table level does not work, and you need to go deeper and go to link column to column. We figured out that this was a bug in MANTA Flow, and we talked to them and I think they were fixing it. But in our case, we just realized that if we could link the objects at the lowest level possible, it would work. I was trying to develop, right now, some kind of automation to compare the listed revision that I have in MANTA Flow with some other revision. And I would like to do it in an automatic way. I would like to have some kind of API where I could call this object and the revision that I want and the same object and another revision that I wanted to compare with. And I could not see it as some API in MANTA Flow, and we have this feature on the user interface. I think it would be very powerful because if you want to automate just warn the data owners the structures were updated by looking at the object level, and send an email to these owners to see if that change makes sense.

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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

"One of the most valuable things in a data-focused world is a tool, a technology that's data-centric, not trying to master data management or whatever else. It's a source of truth for what data an organization holds, giving it the ability to catalog, categorize, and understand its data."

"It provides a unified view across different databases and supports a wide range of data source types, including cloud and on-premises systems."

"Data classification is highly effective due to its automatic capabilities."

"BigID's scanning feature is its most valuable component."

"BigID is more advanced than Microsoft Purview when it comes to machine learning and AI development tools."

"The data classification offered by the tool can help companies improve their security strategy"

"The most valuable feature of BigID is its large number of classifiers, which allow us to scan for specific data such as SSN numbers."

"BigID offers different scan types for data discovery. The most powerful one is the full scan, which scans both data and metadata. However, the metadata scan is faster in comparison."

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"The solution is stable. We have not found any fatal errors yet."

"I believe it is very powerful. And for technicians, you can see the impact analysis, you can compare versions. So you can see some revisions against some of the oldest ones. You can compare and see which pipelines were updated between them. I think it is very helpful to both sides, the technical and business teams."

Cons

"The challenge we encountered was with data connection across multiple databases. We struggled with configuring the data connection successfully. However, with the assistance of dynamic teams, we resolved this issue."

"BigID is making some forays into the GRC space, and that's a natural progression. I'd like to see that improve so that data governance is better, data risk is identified, and the ability to control and mitigate it."

"In terms of what could be improved, when you're looking in a BigID file, you cannot really get the whole file. You have to export it to download it to another platform that allows you to completely view it, or run a program. That was one of the things that was really a disappointing point for me. Not to be able to view everything. There's a lot more data, but you can't get it all at once."

"There are some shortcomings when it comes to Calvirus authentication, which is not yet supported by BigID."

"Some users find catalog navigation challenging due to the lack of a search-by-column feature, which makes it difficult to locate specific data quickly."

"There are some shortcomings when it comes to Calvirus authentication, which is not yet supported by BigID."

"BigID needs improvement in terms of automation."

"I want them to focus on data mapping, assessment, automation workflow, and privacy incident management. The privacy tools have not been widely used, and they have not invested much in privacy code privacy tools."

More BigID cons

"I would like to have some kind of API where I could call this object and the revision that I want and the same object and another revision that I wanted to compare with. And I could not see it as some API in MANTA Flow, and we have this feature on the user interface."

"One area of improvement for MANTA Flow is to add as many new data sources as possible. We have found that maybe they can support 100, but not 101, unfortunately."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing depends. If you have thousands of data sources to connect and manage, and you struggled with an MDM package in the past, you'll find BigID valuable and even cheap. But if you're a small business, it's probably not the right tool for you."

"The solution is not licensed per user but rather based on capacity. For instance, organizations with large amounts of data, such as 50 GB or more, are the ones that typically qualify for BigID."

"I think that BigID's pricing is very reasonable."

"The product is expensive, but so are all competitor tools"

"The solution is expensive."

"As a service company, we don't care about the price because the customer is paying, but the customers consider MANTA to be reasonable."

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Financial Services Firm

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Financial Services Firm

38%

Non Profit

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Questions from the Community

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Overview

BigID is a leader in data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: enabling organizations to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their data in a single platform for data visibility and control. Customers use BigID to reduce their data risk, automate security and privacy controls, achieve compliance, and understand their data across their entire data landscape: including multicloud, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on-prem data sources.

Drives visibility and control for all sensitive & critical datah
helps organizations understand and minimize data risk across the cloud & on-prem
AI automation
End-to-end data lifecycle management
DSPM
Data Security
Privacy Automation
Data inventory
Compliance

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Data Lineage Done Right
MANTA’s unified lineage platform maps all information flows to give you a complete overview of your data pipeline. Save money on manual labor by automating data lineage discovery; keep your data pipeline healthy by preventing data incidents; and migrate painlessly to the cloud.

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Sample Customers

Home Depot, Grant Thornton LLP, Cimpress, Fidelity Investments

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