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At a Glance
Market Segments
Enterprise (60.7% of reviews)
Small-Business (66.7% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
No pricing available
Alation
Star Rating
(92)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (60.7% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about Alationdata.world
Star Rating
(12)4.2 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (66.7% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
Learn more about data.worldAlation vs data.world
- Reviewers felt that data.world meets the needs of their business better than Alation.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Alation is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of data.world over Alation.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Alation
No pricing availabledata.world
No pricing availableFree Trial
Alation
Free Trial is available
data.world
No trial information availableRatings
Meets Requirements
8.2
68
9.0
10
Ease of Use
8.3
72
8.8
10
Ease of Setup
8.1
50
Not enough data
Ease of Admin
8.5
41
Not enough data
Quality of Support
8.6
61
8.5
10
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.8
44
Not enough data
Product Direction (% positive)
9.0
72
10.0
10
Features by Category
Data Governance
7.8
26
8.6
7
7.6
26
9.0
5
7.3
25
9.3
5
Data Preparation
8.2
28
8.1
7
7.8
27
9.0
7
7.4
25
9.2
6
6.8
25
8.3
6
Collaboration
8.4
25
9.0
7
7.9
25
9.4
6
8.5
27
9.2
6
8.0
23
8.8
7
Artificial Intelligence
7.2
25
8.8
7
7.2
24
8.6
7
6.7
22
8.6
6
Generative AI
7.4
15
Not enough data
7.7
15
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Machine Learning Data Catalog
6.9
13
Not enough data
7.1
13
Not enough data
7.1
12
Not enough data
7.1
12
Not enough data
7.5
12
Not enough data
Administration
6.9
38
Not enough data
7.2
41
Not enough data
6.9
39
Not enough data
7.1
39
Not enough data
Management
8.2
39
Not enough data
8.4
40
Not enough data
6.8
38
Not enough data
6.9
39
Not enough data
7.3
38
Not enough data
Compliance
7.5
38
Not enough data
7.6
39
Not enough data
7.5
36
Not enough data
7.2
39
Not enough data
Security
7.5
36
Not enough data
7.6
36
Not enough data
7.6
37
Not enough data
Data Quality
6.8
36
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.3
37
Not enough data
Maintainence
7.2
35
Not enough data
7.2
34
Not enough data
Generative AI
6.4
29
Not enough data
6.5
29
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Data Governance
5.5
7
Not enough data
6.0
7
Not enough data
6.2
7
Not enough data
5.8
6
Not enough data
5.2
7
Not enough data
5.2
7
Not enough data
Data Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Analytics
Not enough data
Not enough data
Security
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Generative AI
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Data Fabric
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data Management
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Availability
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Performance
Not enough data
Not enough data
Security
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Support
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data management
8.3
24
Not enough data
7.4
24
Not enough data
8.3
24
Not enough data
8.0
22
Not enough data
8.3
24
Not enough data
Reporting
7.5
23
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.4
20
Not enough data
Generative AI
7.0
19
Not enough data
7.1
19
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Alation and data.world are categorized as Active Metadata Management, Data Governance, and Machine Learning Data Catalog
Unique Categories
Alation has no unique categories
data.world is categorized as Graph Databases and Data Fabric
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Alation
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
data.world
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Information Technology and Services
13.1%
Financial Services
8.3%
Computer Software
6.0%
Manufacturing
4.8%
Retail
4.8%
Other
63.1%
Computer Software
25.0%
Research
16.7%
Information Technology and Services
16.7%
Manufacturing
8.3%
Telecommunications
8.3%
Other
25.0%
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Discussions
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