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Instead of Databricks Unity Catalog

Best Databricks Unity Catalog Alternatives in 2026

Taken from Data Lineage Tools, where Databricks Unity Catalog is listed too, in the same order.

  1. 1

    Atlas

    Atlas manages database schemas and migrations through declarative, versioned workflows, and is designed to work across programming languages.

    • Free plan
    • Open source
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.7 Club score
  2. 2

    Databricks Notebooks

    Databricks Notebooks is a web-based environment for data and machine-learning work.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.4 Club score
  3. 3

    Marquez

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    7.8 Club score
  4. 4

    Coalesce Catalog

    Coalesce Catalog helps teams discover, document, and govern data assets across a data stack.

    • Free plan
    • Web · Browser extension · API
    7.8 Club score
  5. 5

    Apache Atlas

    Apache Atlas is an open-source platform for managing metadata and governance around data assets.

    • Free plan
    • Open source
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.8 Club score
  6. 6

    OpenDataDiscovery Platform

    OpenDataDiscovery Platform (ODD) is a free, open-source platform for finding and governing data products across data teams.

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.8 Club score
  7. 7

    Egeria

    Egeria is an open-source project for managing and sharing metadata and context among people, tools, and platforms used in AI and data science.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    7.8 Club score
  8. 8

    Grai

    Grai is a data lineage tool for understanding and testing connections across databases, warehouses, APIs, and dashboards.

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.8 Club score
  9. 9

    Dataedo

    • Free trial
    • Windows · Web · Browser extension · Self-hosted
    7.2 Club score
  10. 10

    Truedat

    • Free trial
    • Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.2 Club score
  11. 11

    Alex Solutions

    Alex Solutions is an enterprise data operations platform that brings data governance, metadata management, automated lineage, and AI readiness together.

    • Free trial
    • Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.2 Club score
  12. 12

    Collate

    Collate is an AI for Data platform for data teams and AI agents, built on an open context layer and the Apache 2.0 OpenMetadata metadata foundation.

    • Free plan
    • Web · Browser extension · API · Self-hosted
    7.2 Club score
  13. 13

    Amazon DataZone

    Amazon DataZone is a cloud service for cataloging, discovering, sharing and governing organizational data across AWS, on-premises and third-party sources.

    • Free plan
    • Web · API
    7.0 Club score
  14. 14

    CastorDoc

    CastorDoc is a cloud data catalog for discovering, governing, and using data assets across an organization.

    • Free trial
    • Web · Browser extension · API
    7.0 Club score
  15. 15

    DataFitch

    • Free trial
    • Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.0 Club score
  16. 16

    OpenMetadata

    OpenMetadata is an open-source platform that organizes technical context, business meaning, and organizational memory in a knowledge graph for people and AI agents.

    • Free plan
    • Web · API · Self-hosted
    6.9 Club score
  17. 17

    Spline

    Spline is a free, open-source tool for tracking data lineage and pipeline structure.

    • Free plan
    • Web · API · Self-hosted
    6.9 Club score
  18. 18

    Datameer

    Datameer is a cloud data preparation and analytics platform designed and optimized for Snowflake.

    • Free trial
    • Web · API
    6.9 Club score
  19. 19

    BigID Data Intelligence Platform

    • Free trial
    • Web · API · Self-hosted
    6.8 Club score
  20. 20

    DataHub Cloud

    • Free trial
    • Web · API
    6.8 Club score

The whole list: Data Lineage Tools