14 open-source Data Governance & MDM vendors.

Open-source software for Data Governance & MDM that you can self-host, with auditable source code — regardless of the developer's headquarters.

• Apache AtlasSelf-hosted / open source

  The traditional open-source heavyweight from the Apache Software Foundation for governance and metadata management within enterprise data lakes and Hadoop/Spark ecosystems.

  United States

• Apache KnoxSelf-hosted / open source

  Open-source application gateway acting as a central access point for authentication, authorisation and perimeter security around enterprise data lakes. A project of the Apache Software Foundation.

  United States

• Apache RangerSelf-hosted / open source

  Open-source framework to manage and audit centralised security and access rights (data access governance) across complex enterprise data platforms (Hive, HBase, Kafka, Solr). A project of the Apache Software Foundation.

  United States

• CKANNon-EU vendor

  The global open-source standard for data portals and catalogs, heavily used by European governments for open-data governance (incl. data.europa.eu, data.gov.uk, govdata.de). Governed by the Open Knowledge Foundation (UK).

  United Kingdom

• Data Contract CLISelf-hosted / open source

  Open-source command-line tool (MIT licence) to create and validate 'data contracts', preventing changes in production systems from unexpectedly breaking downstream reports. Developed by consultants at INNOQ (Germany).

  Germany

• DataHubNon-EU vendor

  Popular open-source enterprise data catalog (originally LinkedIn OSS) with real-time metadata ingestion and advanced data lineage visualisation. Commercially maintained by Acryl Data Inc. (Mountain View, US).

  United States

• DeequNon-EU vendor

  Open-source library by Amazon, built on Apache Spark, specifically designed to measure and monitor data quality at massive scale (data lakes).

  United States

• Great ExpectationsNon-EU vendor

  The open-source industry standard for enterprise data quality and data profiling; defines and validates data tests as code. Developed by Superconductive (Redwood City, US).

  United States

• MagdaSelf-hosted / open source

  Open-source federated enterprise data catalog platform excelling in privacy-by-design and indexing distributed datasets without moving them. Originally an Australian government project (CSIRO Data61), now community-maintained.

  Australia

• MarquezSelf-hosted / open source

  Open-source, metadata-centric platform for collecting, organising and visualising data lineage and the status of active data pipelines. The reference implementation of OpenLineage, a graduated project under the Linux Foundation AI & Data.

  United States

• MindsDBNon-EU vendor

  Open-source platform acting as a governance and AI data layer, enabling centralised auditing of data flows into predictive models. US company (Berkeley, California).

  United States

• OpenMetadataNon-EU vendor

  Modern, central open-source platform for data governance unifying data cataloging, lineage, data quality and team collaboration via an API-first approach. Commercially maintained by Collate Inc. (Menlo Park, US).

  United States

• OpenRefineSelf-hosted / open source

  Powerful, locally-run desktop application for cleaning, transforming and governing messy datasets without cloud transfer. Fiscally sponsored by the non-profit Code for Science & Society (US); no controlling company.

  United States

• PanderaNon-EU vendor

  Lightweight open-source data-validation framework for data scientists to enforce schema and data-quality checks within Python pipelines (pandas/Polars/Spark). Developed by Union.ai (Seattle, US).

  United States