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IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog vs erwin Data Catalog by Quest comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

erwin Data Catalog by Quest
Ranking in Metadata Management
14th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog
Ranking in Metadata Management
8th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Metadata Management category, the mindshare of erwin Data Catalog by Quest is 3.6%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is 4.0%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Metadata Management
 

Featured Reviews

Andres-Martinez - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps with metadata management, saves time, and allows us to do impact analysis on any changes
There are always ways to improve things. For example, we can use AI to be able to find out something. When we are typing something, if we don't know the exact term, Artificial Intelligence would be useful to find terms that are phonetically or syntactically similar. Instead of having to type in the exact name, they can provide those in the list. So, they can provide AI support for the search because when you have thousands and thousands of terms, it is hard to remember all the names. There were some issues when drawing the data models. If you have more than 500 or 600 tables, it takes a long time to display those in the right position on the screen. That can also be improved. They need some caching and some parallel pipelines working on the backend in order to divide it into sections.
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
Real Estate/Law Firm
6%
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Questions from the Community

Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?
There are two products I know about * TimeXtender : Microsoft based, Transformation logic is quiet good and can easily be extended with T-SQL , Has a semantic layer that generates metat data for cu...
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Balfour Beatty Construction, Banco de México, BFSI Canada, CenturyLink, Daktronics
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