Google Cloud Data Catalog Reviews & Product Details

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Hard to know where to start. There is so much available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This a good feature because it allows for better organization and management of resources within a Google Cloud environment. It allows specific users or groups of users to be given access to search and tag resources, which can improve collaboration and access to important data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have any complaints with it. But the UI for interacting with IAM roles and what not could be improved. GCP generally doesn't seem to be that great in the UI/UX department - but that could be said about a lot of products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to quickly discover, understand, and manage their data assets across various data sources and platforms. Centralized searchable metadata helps easy collaboration across various department Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Initial setup and configuration is time consuming

2. organizations with a large amount of metadata and frequent updates on metadata need to consider the cost while finalizing the solution

3. Limited support with non-cloud google platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Google Cloud Data Catalog acts like a data dictionary for business metadata/data silos across GCP, Bigquery etc. This bridges the gap between multiple cloud sources and enable interoperability across cloud platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To create manual entries for the catalog. At times search results are not up to the mark. The tag length is limited and cannot capture complete information. It cannot list entry groups or custom entities the user creates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Google Cloud Data Catalog supports various metadata with various Google cloud services, you can combine metadata from multiple sources and integrate it seamlessly into one unified view. That's a great feature that came in handy for us at various client engagements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Building a data lineage in the most sophisticated way for data coming from non-Google sources can become a challenge sometimes. It would help if you were careful while designing your solutions at the beginning to avoid further issues when creating the lineage and foundation needed for the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can find and access all stored data in one platform. This makes it much more easy to work and to analyze all the data we need to work with on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the number of functions is a bit overwhelming in the beginning of working with the platform. Even when you have worked with Google products before, it takes some time to understand everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Data catalog integrates well with DLP to find sensitive data

Data catalog helps to build the taxonomy

Unified metadata repository

Policy tagging and sensitivity link/integrate to other GCP services like BigQuery,other databases etc for Column level control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

looking for more integration with other GCP and non-GCP services

policy parent and child tag (subtags) nested tags sometimes behave weirdly if not correctly used with IAM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Google Cloud Data Catalog organizes data in a manner which makes it easy to locate and use. Moreover, the security features are sufficiently mature which gives Google CDC an edge over other cloud hosting alternatives. Google Cloud Data Catalog also provides the synergy of integrating smoothly with other cloud services within the Google Cloud ecosystem. For example, we use Google Cloud Data Catalog in conjunction with Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention to ensure that sensitive and critical data is identified and appropriately labeled. Policies are implemented to ensure their retention and disaster recovery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Syncing data between offline endpoints and the cloud is quite slow. We occasionally find hours of latency between the cloud and offline versions despite a robust and continuous network connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.