Data Catalog
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Data Catalog is a metadata management service that helps data professionals discover data and support data governance. Designed specifically to work well with the Oracle ecosystem, it provides an inventory of assets, a business glossary, and a common metastore for data lakes.
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Metadata harvesting
Harvest metadata from data sources across the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ecosystem and on-premises to create an inventory of data assets. This helps data consumers easily find the data they need for analytics.
Harvest technical metadata and gain insight into data in OCI Object Storage, Oracle Autonomous Database, and more.
Support for Oracle on-premises sources
OCI Data Catalog harvests metadata from systems in private networks and on-premises, providing more expansive access to data.
Automatic harvesting
Utilize on-demand or schedule-based automatic harvesting to ensure the data catalog always has up-to-date information.
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Unified metastore
Data engineers running Spark workloads in OCI Data Flow service can use OCI Data Catalog’s metastore as the central repository for metadata about the databases, tables, and partitions represented by files in an OCI Object Storage data lake. This helps increase reuse and collaboration with improved semantic consistency.
Search and discovery
With search, data consumers can gain details on data assets to see whether they are fit for use. Additional details of different data objects are also available for further exploration.
Search and browse
Data consumers can search based on technical names, business terms, and tags, and use filters to find objects of interest.
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Browse objects based on system hierarchy
Through browsing, data consumers can easily locate data in the system hierarchy of available data sources, folders, files, and more.
Business glossary and metadata enrichment
Data stewards can manage enterprise glossaries with categories, subcategories, and business terms to build a taxonomy of business concepts. Other users can contribute their knowledge in the form of tags to make search more productive.
Optimized for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OCI Data Catalog is fully managed by Oracle and runs with all the power and scale of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Cloud-native serverless managed service
Benefit from all of the security, reliability, performance, and scale of Oracle Cloud while using OCI Data Catalog.
Integrate with REST APIs and SDKs
Using REST APIs and SDKs, developers can integrate OCI Data Catalog’s capabilities in their custom applications.
IAM-based policy management
Using a trusted system for managing user identities and access privileges, administrators can control access to data catalog objects and capabilities to manage security requirements.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Catalog Saves Users Countless Hours
"OCI Data Catalog will dramatically improve how our end users automate metadata harvesting, perform data discovery, and understand data in the data lake and data warehouse."
- Sreenivas Simhadri
Senior Director, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Insights
Data Catalog key benefits
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Data discovery for warehouses and data lakes
Discover data assets across Oracle data stores on-premises and in the cloud to start gaining real value from data.
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Accelerate analytics
Improve data science productivity by making data discovery easier with data recommendations and easier data exploration.
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Support data governance
Provide more insight into data with a business glossary and enrichments to improve trust in data in the Oracle ecosystem.
New OCI Data Catalog release introduces AI and ML-based features for better productivity
Sandrine Riley, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle
In this release of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Data Catalog, we have added improvements to help data professionals harvest, curate, and search metadata for assets across their object storage data lake, Autonomous Data Warehouse, and Oracle and non-Oracle databases for analytics.
Read the complete postFeatured blogs
- December 8, 2020 Building meaningful catalogs for data lakes
- October 26, 2020 Enrich metadata with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Catalog
- October 20, 2020 Better collaboration using improved metadata curation, search, and discovery for data lakes with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Catalog’s new release
Resources
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Catalog Documentation
Learn what’s new in the latest release (Readiness)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Catalog Documentation
Free OCI Data Catalog tutorials
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