Data Catalog
topic on 2 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
5 statements about Data Catalog, every show
Catanzaro: Data Catalogs Failed to Become a Standalone Software Category
“They all have struggled a bit as a category. Many of them have been, you know, acquired subsequently which suggests that like, this was not, you know, perhaps a standalone category as a data scientist.”
Kim: 'Data catalog' is an overused buzzword for a basic tool feature
“I actually think data catalog is a very overused term and also a feature that's available for every modern data tools. Like every data quality or observability tools have a catalog. But catalog really is your schema like map plus search.”
Moses: Traditional data catalogs are dead; long live automated data discovery
“We actually wrote a blog post not too long ago called data catalogs are dead. Long live data discovery.”
Unbundled data tools create management problems that require automated data catalogs
“I, in my opinion, I feel strongly that's the right thing to do and you get the best of breed products, but it creates problems around management and governance that are new and need to be solved in a new way. And that's where like something like a data catalog…”
Data catalogs without governance inevitably fail and fall into disuse
“If you have a Data catalog, which is really like a listing of all the data sets and attributes, dictionaries that are out there, without governance around it, it's just like a phone book. It doesn't do anything, it's not controlled, it doesn't work, it's gonna…”