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Alation
Star Rating
(92)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (60.7% of reviews)
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Entry-Level Pricing
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Star Rating
(469)4.4 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (50.8% of reviews)
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When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Alation easier to use. However, reviewers felt that Monte Carlo is easier to set up and do business with overall. Both products were equally easy to administer.
- Reviewers felt that Monte Carlo meets the needs of their business better than Alation.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Monte Carlo is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Alation over Monte Carlo.
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Entry-Level Pricing
Alation
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All you need to make data reliable for one team
- Monitoring for Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, ETL
- Incident triaging, troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Lineage
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Alation
Free Trial is available
Monte Carlo
No trial information availableRatings
Meets Requirements
8.2
68
8.3
436
Ease of Use
8.3
72
8.2
443
Ease of Setup
8.1
50
8.2
308
Ease of Admin
8.5
41
8.5
160
Quality of Support
8.6
61
9.0
390
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.8
44
9.3
163
Product Direction (% positive)
9.0
72
8.9
432
Features by Category
Data Governance
7.8
26
Not enough data
7.6
26
Not enough data
7.3
25
Not enough data
Data Preparation
8.2
28
Not enough data
7.8
27
Not enough data
7.4
25
Not enough data
6.8
25
Not enough data
Collaboration
8.4
25
Not enough data
7.9
25
Not enough data
8.5
27
Not enough data
8.0
23
Not enough data
Artificial Intelligence
7.2
25
Not enough data
7.2
24
Not enough data
6.7
22
Not enough data
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
Functionality
Not enough data
9.0
260
Not enough data
8.8
261
Not enough data
7.8
238
Not enough data
8.3
247
Not enough data
7.7
242
Not enough data
7.4
244
Agentic AI - Database Monitoring
Not enough data
7.1
13
Not enough data
6.9
13
Not enough data
6.9
13
Not enough data
7.1
13
Not enough data
6.8
12
Not enough data
6.5
13
Not enough data
7.1
13
Data Management
Not enough data
8.5
51
Not enough data
8.4
47
Not enough data
8.6
51
Not enough data
7.9
49
Agentic AI - DataOps Platforms
Not enough data
7.2
6
Not enough data
6.0
5
Not enough data
6.3
5
Not enough data
6.3
5
Not enough data
6.3
5
Analytics
Not enough data
7.8
50
Not enough data
7.7
47
Monitoring and Management
Not enough data
9.2
55
Not enough data
7.6
48
Cloud Deployment
Not enough data
7.4
43
Not enough data
7.0
41
Generative AI
Not enough data
6.2
34
Not enough data
6.1
34
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
Functionality
Not enough data
7.4
291
Not enough data
8.8
323
Not enough data
8.1
294
Not enough data
8.0
299
Management
Not enough data
8.7
318
Not enough data
7.7
287
Not enough data
8.3
311
Not enough data
8.0
305
Not enough data
8.1
312
Generative AI
Not enough data
5.8
231
Agentic AI - Data Observability
Not enough data
6.1
27
Not enough data
6.2
27
Not enough data
6.7
27
Not enough data
6.4
26
Not enough data
6.7
29
Functionality
Not enough data
8.1
187
Not enough data
6.4
174
Not enough data
6.7
169
Not enough data
6.1
164
Not enough data
6.4
165
Management
Not enough data
7.2
169
Not enough data
7.5
169
Not enough data
7.9
167
Not enough data
7.4
175
Not enough data
7.5
169
Generative AI
Not enough data
5.2
145
Not enough data
5.3
145
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Alation and Monte Carlo share no categories
Unique Categories
Alation is categorized as Active Metadata Management, Data Governance, and Machine Learning Data Catalog
Monte Carlo is categorized as DataOps Platforms, Database Monitoring, Data Observability, and Data Quality
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Alation
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Monte Carlo
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%
Financial Services
14.2%
Information Technology and Services
11.2%
Computer Software
10.7%
Marketing and Advertising
3.7%
Manufacturing
3.5%
Other
56.7%
Discussions
Which three are capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data catalog service?
1 Comment
JB
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Catalog service offers several capabilities to help organizations manage and govern their data assets. Here are three key...Read more
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What is Monte Carlo software?
1 Comment
MV
Monte Carlo is a fully automated, end-to-end data observability platform that helps data engineering teams reduce time to detection and resolution for data...Read more
Monte Carlo has no more discussions with answers
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