Marquez vs OpenMetadata
No leader: the top candidate OpenMetadata has only 0.05 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data catalog. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Marquez
An open-source metadata server that captures data lineage and ecosystem metadata from running jobs and applications. Provides real-time collection via OpenLineage-compatible endpoints, a web interface for browsing lineage relationships, and APIs for querying metadata to automate tasks like root-cause analysis and data quality monitoring.
OpenMetadata
An open-source platform for unified metadata management, data cataloging, and governance. It captures relationships between data assets, ownership, lineage, quality signals, and policies in a knowledge graph, enabling discovery through semantic search and AI-ready APIs.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- dbt
Marquez
- OpenLineage
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Spark
- Apache Flink
- Dagster
OpenMetadata
- Airflow
- ClickHouse
- Metabase
Marquez or OpenMetadata: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.