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Re:SchemaCrawler: Free database schema discovery and compreh... by prepend on Sunday December 30, 2018 @01:05PM (#18790434)
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.

Re:SchemaCrawler: Free database schema discovery and compreh... by pklee on Sunday December 30, 2018 @05:49PM (#18791809)
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.