Here’s the difference between Alation and Meltano. The comparison is based on pricing, deployment, business model, and other important factors.
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.
Provider of open-source extract, load and transform pipelines for DataOps. It is a directory with text-based files and features such as tracking of incremental replication rate, data loading into data warehouses, UI for management and monitoring, as well as data extraction from multiple data sources.