Enterprise Data Governance

Data Catalog

The enterprise-grade data catalog that scales with your organization. Business Glossary, Data Products, and real-time collaboration.

Business GlossaryData ProductsAnomaly DetectionAccess PoliciesAudit TrailQuality Scores
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PIIPHIPCIGDPRPopularHas TermsMy TablesDomain: Sales

Enterprise Catalog Capabilities

Everything you need to discover, document, and govern your data at scale.

Unified Data Discovery

Cross-catalog search spanning tables, columns, glossary terms, and data products. Full-text search with fuzzy matching and relevance scoring.

Business Glossary

Define business terms with hierarchical categories, synonyms, and approval workflows (draft → approved → deprecated). AI-suggested term links with NexionMind.

Data Products

Group assets into data products with SLAs for freshness, quality, and availability. Track consumers and maturity levels (experimental → beta → production).

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PII/PHI Detection

Automatic detection of sensitive data: emails, SSN, phone, credit cards, medical records. Separate tracking for PII and PHI with HIPAA compliance scope.

Custom Classifications

Create custom tags with color and severity. Auto-classify with rules and patterns. Compliance framework mapping for GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC2.

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Access Policies

Row-level and column-level access control with allow, deny, mask, and filter policies. Dynamic masking functions and role-based priority evaluation.

Data Profiling

Column-level statistics: distinct counts, null rates, completeness %. Table-level row counts, size metrics, and sensitive column counts.

Schema Versioning

Automatic version history with DeepDiff comparison. Track column additions, removals, type changes. Breaking change alerts with audit trail.

Data Ownership

Assign owners and stewards with user or team types. Access request workflows with approval notifications and ownership validation.

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Quality Checks

Define validation rules with severity levels (low → critical). Custom SQL queries, threshold configs, pass/fail rates, and trust scores per table.

Lineage Integration

Upstream and downstream table relationships. Pipeline associations with visual lineage graphs. Column-level data flow tracking.

Audit Trail

Complete audit log: policy access, user tracking, masking applied, row filters, grant/deny decisions. Full compliance traceability.

Multi-Format Support

Support for Delta Lake, Parquet, CSV, JSON, Iceberg, and Avro. Managed, external, view, and materialized view table types.

Collaboration

Threaded comments, 5-star ratings, and bookmark folders. Resolve discussions and share insights across teams.

Command Palette Search

Cmd+K for instant access. Full-text search with dynamic facets, query suggestions, and highlighted results.

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Unity Catalog Sync

Bi-directional synchronization with Databricks. Full sync with force option, incremental sync, offline mode with graceful degradation.

Business Glossary

Bridge the Gap Between Business and Data

Define business terms once, link them to technical columns everywhere. Your entire organization speaks the same data language.

  • Hierarchical categories for organization
  • Approval workflow (draft → approved → deprecated)
  • Synonyms and related terms
  • AI-suggested term links with NexionMind

Business Terms

3 terms
Active Customer
approved

A customer who has made at least one purchase in the last 90 days.

Paying CustomerEngaged Customer
2 linked columns
Churn Rate
approved

Percentage of customers who stopped using the service in a given period.

Attrition RateCustomer Loss Rate
2 linked columns
LTV
draft

Lifetime Value - Total revenue expected from a customer over their relationship.

Customer Lifetime ValueCLV
2 linked columns

Customer 360

Sales

Complete customer view combining transactions, support, and engagement data.

Freshness SLA95%
Quality SLA98%
4 tables12 consumers
Data Platform Team

Revenue Analytics

Finance

Financial metrics and revenue attribution across all channels.

Freshness SLA99%
Quality SLA96%
4 tables8 consumers
Finance Team
Data Products

Treat Your Data as a Product

Group related assets into data products with clear ownership, SLAs, and documentation. Make data discoverable and trustworthy for consumers.

  • Define SLAs for freshness, quality, and availability
  • Track who consumes your data products
  • Maturity levels: experimental → beta → production
  • Rich documentation with README support

Browse Your Data Estate

Hierarchical navigation: Data Pods → Schemas → Tables → Columns

Data Pods/All Tables
customers

salesPII Pod

2 terms
94
12 columns • 1.2M rows1,240
PIIGDPR
John Smith
patient_records

healthcarePHI Pod

5 terms
97
28 columns • 890K rows890
PHIHIPAA
Dr. Jane Doe
transactions

financePCI Pod

3 terms
89
15 columns • 5.4M rows2,100
PCISOC2
Mike Johnson
analytics_events

analyticsGeneral Pod

85
22 columns • 45M rows450
Sarah Wilson

Column-Level Detail

Every column cataloged with data type, classification, statistics, and lineage.

customersemail

Metadata

Data TypeVARCHAR(255)
NullableNo
Primary KeyNo
IndexedYes

Classification

PII TypeEMAIL
Confidence98%
ProtectionHASH
ComplianceGDPR

Statistics

Distinct1,198,432
Null %0.3%
Avg Length24 chars
Pattern Match99.7%

Linked Business Terms

Customer EmailContact Information
source_db.users.email
customers.email
analytics.email_hash
Schema History

Schema Version Tracking

Every schema change is automatically tracked with DeepDiff comparison. See exactly what changed between versions.

  • Automatic change detection
  • Visual diff between versions
  • Breaking change alerts
  • Full version history

Version History: customers

v3 (current)2 days ago

+ Added: loyalty_tier (VARCHAR)

v22 weeks ago

~ Modified: phone (VARCHAR(20) → VARCHAR(30))

v11 month ago

Initial schema

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Enhance with NexionMind

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