What is the Azure data Catalog?

What does a data catalog do?

Simply put, a data catalog is an organized inventory of data assets in the organization. It uses metadata to help organizations manage their data. It also helps data professionals collect, organize, access, and enrich metadata to support data discovery and governance.

How do I use Azure data catalog?

Go to the Azure portal > Create a resource and select Data Catalog. Specify a name for the data catalog, the subscription you want to use, the location for the catalog, and the pricing tier. Then select Create. Go to the Azure Data Catalog home page and select Publish Data.

What is the difference between data catalog and data dictionary?

While Business Glossaries help define terminology across business units and Data Dictionaries provide technical information about physical data assets, Data Catalogs are a one-stop shop for anyone shopping for data they would like to use, manage or understand.

What is enterprise data catalog?

An enterprise data catalog (EDC) is a single source for all of the information that is needed to work effectively with data. Unlike embedded data catalogs that see only a limited scope of data and typically support a single cataloging use case—governance, data preparation, self-service analytics, etc.