Compare - Alation VS Google Cloud Dataflow
Here’s the difference between Alation and Google Cloud Dataflow. The comparison is based on pricing, deployment, business model, and other important factors.
About Alation
Alation provides a data cataloging platform. It automatically builds a catalog of useful data documentation, covering all of the data sources, and allows users to collaborate and work on the data. It processes enterprise unstructured data by centralizing knowledge into a single place using machine learning and human analysts. The search can be made using keywords in plain English. Enables users to access relevant information (including experts, lineage, keys and indexes, relevant queries) and documentation on all tables, across the organization’s data sources. The clients include PepsiCo, Dow, Fox Networks, BMW and others.
About Google Cloud Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a cloud-based data processing service for both batch and real-time data streaming applications. It enables developers to set up processing pipelines for integrating, preparing and analyzing large data sets, such as those found in Web analytics or big data analytics applications. The Cloud Dataflow software expands on earlier Google parallel processing projects, including MapReduce, which originated at the company. Cloud Dataflow is designed to bring to entire analytics pipelines the style of fast parallel execution that MapReduce brought to a single type of computational sort for batch processing jobs.
Comparison Table
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Categories | Data Discovery, Data Cataloging | Data Streaming |
| Stage | Late Stage | Late Stage |
| Target Segment | Enterprise, Mid size | Enterprise, Mid size |
| Deployment | SaaSOn Prem | SaaS |
| Business Model | Commercial | Commercial |
| Pricing | Free trial | Freemium |
| Location | California, US | US |
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