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Data & Analytics · Intermediate

Data Catalog

An inventory of an organization's data assets with metadata, descriptions, ownership, classifications, lineage and search for discovery.

Definition

Catalogs help users find, understand and trust data and help stewards govern it. Examples include Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog, Unity Catalog, Dataplex Universal Catalog, AWS Glue Data Catalog, the OneLake catalog and Collibra.

Exam tip

'Users can't find or trust datasets' = implement a data catalog.

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