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10 Years Later: Who’s the GOAT of Data Catalogs?

Alation

December 2012: Alation forms and goes to work creating the first enterprise data catalog. August 2017: Alation debuts as a leader in the Gartner MQ for Metadata Management Solutions. August 2018: Gartner names Alation a 2X Leader in the MQ for Metadata Management Solutions. June 2017: Yahoo Japan Corp.

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Gain insights from historical location data using Amazon Location Service and AWS analytics services

AWS Big Data

The Data Catalog provides metadata that allows analytics applications using Athena to find, read, and process the location data stored in Amazon S3. The crawlers will automatically classify the data into JSON format, group the records into tables and partitions, and commit associated metadata to the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Choose Run.