TAMR is a neat tool, but what is the price? I’m wary of tools that require a demo to even understand if this is a $1M tool or $100M tool.

I’m interested in sustainable ways to map out data across the enterprise. But the vendor space is hard, for me, to analyze at a green fields level because it’s full of pretty heavy tools that require implementation and consulting just to set up. I was unaware of TAMR until your post but tried to go through Gartner’s analysis looking at data management platforms.

Are there even any open source tools or communities in this space. For example, I started looking at Talend’s metadata mgmt oss stack for eval as to whether it’s something that would help me, but gave up after their demos wouldn’t run in a few environments I tried.

Do not know the cost point of TAMR. Aware that it is expensive. There are a couple of tools that come to mind, metacat (as someone pointed out), wherehows (linkedin), apache atlas (not sure who contributed). The issue is also to look at not just RDBMS but also RDF, Graph and then abstract it through a semantic layer.

I've never used TAMR, but how about https://github.com/Netflix/metacat?

I have not used it, I have heard of it. Have you used it, would love to get your ideas / thoughts on it.

What is TAMR?

https://www.tamr.com/ - Metadata management for the enterprise as I understand it.

Their sells team must be good to manage to get a french bank with this name: tamr would be read as "ta mère" (your mom) which is usually used alone only for cursing.

I would love to contribute