Having fun isn't hard when you have a modern data catalog
Data Catalog and Data Fabric are any data architecture enablers. You can use centralized architecture or decentralized, Data Catalogs will enable effective management and help interact with the data. Taking a closer look we figure out that Data Catalog is one of the main technology pillars of Data Fabric which has a much wider approach, including also data semantic enrichment, data preparation as well as data recommendation engines and various data orchestrators. Data Fabric empowered by Data Catalog, is an abstraction layer that helps applications to connect to data, regardless of database technology and data server location, using built-in APIs. However, a traditionally manually managed data catalog does not qualify as a Data Fabric unit. Modern Data Catalog is actively driven by the meta-data and scans data sources regularly with no need for manual maintenance. Modern Data Catalogs usually would have built-in fully-automated end-to-end data lineage and enforc...