BigID vs Collibra Privacy & Risk comparison

BigID and Collibra are both solutions in the Data Governance category. BigID is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3, while Collibra is ranked #44. BigID holds a 7.7% mindshare in DG, compared to Collibra’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of BigID users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Collibra users who would recommend it.

BigID

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100% willing to recommend

Collibra Privacy & Risk

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

BigID

Ranking in Data Governance

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Privacy Management Software (3rd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (3rd)

Collibra Privacy & Risk

Ranking in Data Governance

44th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Data Governance category, the mindshare of BigID is 7.7%, up from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Collibra Privacy & Risk is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ankita Sabale

Senior Associate - IT Governance and Compliance at Fulcrum Digital Inc

Predefined classifiers in place support sensitive data scanning effectively

BigID does not currently support Kerberos authentication for DataStax. On the user interface, analyzing true and false positives can be challenging, as I can only view 2,000 characters at a time. When tagging scan results, all objects get tagged without the option to untag specific ones. This requires reverting changes through MongoDB, which can result in data loss.

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Tom Kilburn

President at The Consultants Company

Key to controlling data and the knowledge around where data is; strong workflow policies

The technical support is limited. It's high quality, but not high volume, meaning that they have some really good people, but not a ton of them. Nowadays, a lot of people are getting into tech, but they're not really experienced in the particular solutions they're dealing with. It's also potentially hard to find people for that area that are really good, because it requires different types of experience. They have to know the application, but they also have to understand how applications work, how data warehousing work, things like that. Nothing against young people, but when they've only been in the industry for a few years and don't necessarily have that experience, they may not be able to help as much as you might need.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I like BigID's in-depth discovery and scanning capabilities, especially for unstructured data. This feature is a standout compared to competitors. The tool's data classification capabilities are impressive. It offers custom classifiers and a blend of regular exploration and artificial intelligence, making it a next-generation solution. This enhances data security, and its security posture management is straightforward and user-friendly."

"The most valuable feature of BigID is its large number of classifiers, which allow us to scan for specific data such as SSN numbers."

"The data classification offered by the tool can help companies improve their security strategy"

"It provides a unified view across different databases and supports a wide range of data source types, including cloud and on-premises systems."

"The most valuable feature of BigID is its large number of classifiers, which allow us to scan for specific data such as SSN numbers."

"BigID offers different scan types for data discovery. The most powerful one is the full scan, which scans both data and metadata. However, the metadata scan is faster in comparison."

"The features that I have found most valuable are the user experience, the credentialing, and that BigID is user friendly. Additionally, you can deploy to several other Microsoft platforms and you can use it for other things, like a bigger element or a report."

"BigID integrates well with our other products."

More BigID pros

"Rules and policies on workflows are really strong."

Cons

"One concern I have with BigID is regarding certain scans, like the multi-scan. The issue is that we can stop and retrieve these scans, but once they start, they go through an enumeration process."

"The tool currently lacks security features."

"In terms of what could be improved, when you're looking in a BigID file, you cannot really get the whole file. You have to export it to download it to another platform that allows you to completely view it, or run a program. That was one of the things that was really a disappointing point for me. Not to be able to view everything. There's a lot more data, but you can't get it all at once."

"BigID needs improvement in terms of automation."

"BigID is expensive. I prefer McAfee."

"Some users find catalog navigation challenging due to the lack of a search-by-column feature, which makes it difficult to locate specific data quickly."

"The challenge we encountered was with data connection across multiple databases. We struggled with configuring the data connection successfully. However, with the assistance of dynamic teams, we resolved this issue."

"I want them to focus on data mapping, assessment, automation workflow, and privacy incident management. The privacy tools have not been widely used, and they have not invested much in privacy code privacy tools."

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"Connectivity with different applications could be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is expensive, but so are all competitor tools"

"The solution is expensive."

"The solution is not licensed per user but rather based on capacity. For instance, organizations with large amounts of data, such as 50 GB or more, are the ones that typically qualify for BigID."

"I think that BigID's pricing is very reasonable."

"The pricing depends. If you have thousands of data sources to connect and manage, and you struggled with an MDM package in the past, you'll find BigID valuable and even cheap. But if you're a small business, it's probably not the right tool for you."

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Financial Services Firm

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Overview

BigID is a leader in data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: enabling organizations to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their data in a single platform for data visibility and control. Customers use BigID to reduce their data risk, automate security and privacy controls, achieve compliance, and understand their data across their entire data landscape: including multicloud, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on-prem data sources.

Drives visibility and control for all sensitive & critical datah
helps organizations understand and minimize data risk across the cloud & on-prem
AI automation
End-to-end data lifecycle management
DSPM
Data Security
Privacy Automation
Data inventory
Compliance

BigID

Collibra Privacy & Risk not only helps organizations manage both their privacy regulation compliance and daily privacy operations, it also provides a holistic view of sensitive enterprise information, including the processes that use the data, the people that have access, and where the data is stored.

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Sample Customers

Home Depot, Grant Thornton LLP, Cimpress, Fidelity Investments

AXA XL, DNB, Adobe, PMI, Holland America Line, UC Davis Health, Cox Automotive

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