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mohd moizuddin
mohd moizuddin

Reputation: 41

What is the Data Catalog service in Google cloud platform

Does GCP provide a data catalog service like "Microsoft Azure Data Catalog"?

If it does not, what are the options for doing data cataloging?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4121

Answers (3)

hkanjih
hkanjih

Reputation: 1301

Cloud Data Catalog was announced in Google Cloud Next 19. You can see the session here.

Google Cloud DataCatalog support schematized tags (e.g., Enum, Bool, DateTime) and not just simple text tags and you don't need to define which data will be published you just enabled it and start to use (except for Cloud Storage).

The Cloud Data Catalog is in "beta" today (May, 1, 2019) and it is working with:

  • BigQuery
  • Cloud Storage (You must set as indexable creating a managed entry)
  • Cloud Pub/Sub

Upvotes: 1

Sebastian
Sebastian

Reputation: 2964

They just announced it a few hours ago - it seems to be in Beta still: https://cloud.google.com/data-catalog/

Upvotes: 2

A.Queue
A.Queue

Reputation: 1572

Two closest products that match MS’s Azure Data Catalog that I can find from Google Cloud are still in beta:

  1. Google Cloud Dataprep: a tool to visually explore your data in GCP. There you can clean and prepare data for analysis. I wouldn’t say that it is a complete replacement though.
  2. Google Data Studio: it is a GCP’s analog and I think it matches a lot of Data Catalog’s functionality.

Upvotes: -4

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