Best central data dictionary software

Promote data and metric consistency with an automated data dictionary

Secoda's data dictionary automatically suggests business terms, identifies stewards and subject matter experts based on usage patterns, and incorporates crowdsourcing and collaboration to easily scale documentation.

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Trusted by data teams worldwide.

Finally, a single source of truth

Secoda pulls metadata from your data sources to create documentation automatically, so you can consistently get the information you need and remove the manual work of documentation.

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Simple and powerful search to take the guesswork out of data.

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Build for collaboration so anyone, regardless of technical ability, can ask questions about your data and receive a contextual response.

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Integrate your data dictionary with existing workflows

Secoda allows you to submit a question to your data team from Slack, where you’ll be notified on the progress of it. Get visibility on if your data team has seen your request and who is responsible for it.

Create a single source of truth for your data

Secoda provides a centralized location for collecting and organizing data requests so data teams never have to answer the same question twice.

Trust your metadata repository completely

Certify and share commonly used data assets for internal access. Secoda identifies frequently used data and sensitive resources, empowering confident data usage within the company.

Surface the most important resources

Admins and Editors on Secoda can view most frequently used datasets and the most recently opened resources. Secoda provides insight on what the most frequently asked questions from your team are, empowering admins to be proactive about their data documentation.

Built for easy collaboration with business teams

Easily update and maintain your documentation at scale with workflows that maintain governance and quality.

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Work with your team in real-time

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Multiple users can collaborate on the same documentation, data cataloging, or data tagging task in real-time. 

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Modern version control

Secoda integrates with Git so you can easily track changes, collaborate, and ensure data integrity.

Workspace organization

Teams, collections, and documents make it easy to curate and organize your data knowledge

Role-based permissions

Admins can grant appropriate data access to individuals and teams to ensure each business unit sees only what they need to.

Upholding industry-leading security standards

SOC 2 compliant

Secoda is SOC 2 Type 1 and 2 compliant. The way we process and store client data is secure and protected, based on standards set by the AICPA.

Self-hosted environment

You can host Secoda in a self-hosted environment, behind your own VPN, and in your own VPC. Deploy via Terraform or Docker.

SAML, SSO, and MFA

Sign in with the services you already use, including Google and Microsoft SSO, Okta, MFA and SAML

SSH tunneling

Securely move data from your private databases to Secoda with SSH tunneling.

Auto PII tagging

Get control to remove or leave out sensitive datasets from your syncs or mark it automatically in Secoda.

Data encryption

Data managed with Secoda is fully encrypted in transit and at rest. We do not see the data we are moving.

"With Secoda, we can see all of our metadata in one place and build a single source of truth to enable self-serve analytics. These are huge time savings.”

Amit Jain

Technical Director, Data Systems

Frequently Asked Questions

How can Secoda create a data dictionary?

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You can use the dictionary section of Secoda to define key terms, share metrics and align the team on common definitions. Secoda also allows you to define your metrics in SQL and run them to show the result over time.

What's the difference between a data glossary and a data dictionary?

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There is not much difference between a data dictionary, a data glossary and a metrics repository. In some cases, people will refer to a data catalogue as a data dictionary, but in reality, all artifacts are a representation of metrics and data knowledge in a company.

Is Secoda's data dictionary integrated with metadata?

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Yes, you can connect your metrics to tables, dashboards and questions to see relationships between entities in one place.

Can I upload my data dictionary from excel?

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Yes, Secoda's API allows you to upload your data dictionary from any source, including excel. You can also export the data dictionary if you would like it in excel.

Can I upload my data dictionary from python?

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Yes, Secoda's API allows you to upload your data dictionary from any source, including python. You can also export the data dictionary if you would like it in python.